Lori A Flores
Biographic Data
| ID | 3649694 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lori A Flores |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lori A |
| FAMILY NAME | Flores |
| SIGNATURE | FLORES L A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Stony Brook University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Night Work across Time and Place
This introduction provides context for this special feature on night work across time and place. It outlines past debates over the propriety and necessity of night shifts, as well as present and future challenges and opportunities for night workers, activists, and researchers
Labor Book Forum Response
Intimate Eating
Wreathed in Worry, Pining for Protection
Journal Article Wreathed in Worry, Pining for Protection: Latino Forestry Workers and Historical Traumas in Maine Get access Lori A Flores Lori A Flores Associate professor of history at Stony Brook University (SUNY) Readers may contact Flores at [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 109, Issue 4, March 2023, Pages 828–854, https://doi.org/10.1093/ja…
Special Issue on Workers and Obsolescence
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The career of Chef Zarela Martinez and a changing Mexican foodscape in New York City, 1981–2011
This article discusses Mexican food’s proliferation in New York City from the 1980s onward and focuses specifically on the career of Zarela Martinez, an immigrant Mexican chef who achieved renown by serving haute regional Mexican dishes in her Manhattan restaurant. Martinez rose to celebrity through a confluence of circumstances and spent her career confronting stereotypes about Mexican food as inherently simple, fast, and cheap. Arguing instead …
Racial Migrations
Book Review| March 01 2021 Racial Migrations: New York City and the Revolutionary Politics of the Spanish Caribbean, 1850–1902 by Jesse E. Hoffnung-Garskof Racial Migrations: New York City and the Revolutionary Politics of the Spanish Caribbean, 1850–1902, Hoffnung-Garskof, Jesse E., Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2019, ix + 275 pp., $35.00 (cloth) Lori A. Flores Lori A. Flores Stony Brook University Search for other works by this aut…
Colonial Migrants at the Heart of Empire
Redeeming La Raza
Redeeming La Raza: Transborder Modernity, Race, Respectability, and Rights, by Gabriela González Redeeming La Raza: Transborder Modernity, Race, Respectability, and Rights, by Gabriela González (New York: Oxford U.P., 2018, pp. 196. £64). Lori A Flores Lori A Flores Stony Brook University, NY, USA [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 136, Issue 57…
Grounds for Dreaming
Known as “The Salad Bowl of the World,” California’s Salinas Valley became an agricultural empire due to the toil of diverse farmworkers, including Latinos. A sweeping critical history of how Mexican Americans and Mexican immigrants organized for their rights in the decades leading up to the seminal strikes led by Cesar Chavez, this important work also looks closely at how different groups of Mexicans—U.S. born, bracero, and undocumented—confront…
I Am Not a Tractor! How Florida Farmworkers Took on the Fast Food Giants and Won by Susan L. Marquis
The Florida-based Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) has been garnering recent attention for its successful advocacy of farmworkers’ fair treatment at a time when many basic needs—a minimum wage; overtime pay; and rest, shade, and water in the fields—are still not given to the majority of the nation’s agricultural laborers. While there is now a solid body of literature on the older and California-born United Farm Workers (UFW) union, scholarshi…
Grounds For Dreaming
Known as “The Salad Bowl of the World,” California's Salinas Valley became an agricultural empire due to the toil of diverse farmworkers, including Latinos. A sweeping critical history of how Mexican Americans and Mexican immigrants organized for their rights in the decades leading up to the seminal strikes led by Cesar Chavez, this important work also looks closely at how different groups of Mexicans—U.S. born, bracero, and undocumented—confront…
Borderline Americans
An Unladylike Strike Fashionably Clothed
A conflict that rocked San Antonio from 1959 to 1963, the Tex-Son garment workers' strike was the first International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union (ILGWU) struggle led by a Mexican American woman and the first strike in which Mexican-origin and Anglo women picketed together in Texas. Responding to the city press's focus on the violence of the strike, the women of Tex-Son strategically used Cold War-era ideologies of femininity and domesticity t…
A Community of Limits and the Limits of Community
Research Article| April 01 2008 A Community of Limits and the Limits of Community: MALDEF’s Chicana Rights Project, Empowering the "Typical Chicana," and the Question of Civil Rights, 1974-1983 Lori A. Flores Lori A. Flores Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2008) 27 (3): 81–110. https://doi.org/10.2307/27501837 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions…
Intimate Eating
Wreathed in Worry, Pining for Protection
Journal Article Wreathed in Worry, Pining for Protection: Latino Forestry Workers and Historical Traumas in Maine Get access Lori A Flores Lori A Flores Associate professor of history at Stony Brook University (SUNY) Readers may contact Flores at [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 109, Issue 4, March 2023, Pages 828–854, https://doi.org/10.1093/ja…
The career of Chef Zarela Martinez and a changing Mexican foodscape in New York City, 1981–2011
This article discusses Mexican food’s proliferation in New York City from the 1980s onward and focuses specifically on the career of Zarela Martinez, an immigrant Mexican chef who achieved renown by serving haute regional Mexican dishes in her Manhattan restaurant. Martinez rose to celebrity through a confluence of circumstances and spent her career confronting stereotypes about Mexican food as inherently simple, fast, and cheap. Arguing instead …
A Community of Limits and the Limits of Community
Research Article| April 01 2008 A Community of Limits and the Limits of Community: MALDEF’s Chicana Rights Project, Empowering the "Typical Chicana," and the Question of Civil Rights, 1974-1983 Lori A. Flores Lori A. Flores Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2008) 27 (3): 81–110. https://doi.org/10.2307/27501837 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions…
An Unladylike Strike Fashionably Clothed
A conflict that rocked San Antonio from 1959 to 1963, the Tex-Son garment workers' strike was the first International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union (ILGWU) struggle led by a Mexican American woman and the first strike in which Mexican-origin and Anglo women picketed together in Texas. Responding to the city press's focus on the violence of the strike, the women of Tex-Son strategically used Cold War-era ideologies of femininity and domesticity t…
Borderline Americans
Grounds For Dreaming
Known as “The Salad Bowl of the World,” California's Salinas Valley became an agricultural empire due to the toil of diverse farmworkers, including Latinos. A sweeping critical history of how Mexican Americans and Mexican immigrants organized for their rights in the decades leading up to the seminal strikes led by Cesar Chavez, this important work also looks closely at how different groups of Mexicans—U.S. born, bracero, and undocumented—confront…
I Am Not a Tractor! How Florida Farmworkers Took on the Fast Food Giants and Won by Susan L. Marquis
The Florida-based Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) has been garnering recent attention for its successful advocacy of farmworkers’ fair treatment at a time when many basic needs—a minimum wage; overtime pay; and rest, shade, and water in the fields—are still not given to the majority of the nation’s agricultural laborers. While there is now a solid body of literature on the older and California-born United Farm Workers (UFW) union, scholarshi…
Grounds for Dreaming
Known as “The Salad Bowl of the World,” California’s Salinas Valley became an agricultural empire due to the toil of diverse farmworkers, including Latinos. A sweeping critical history of how Mexican Americans and Mexican immigrants organized for their rights in the decades leading up to the seminal strikes led by Cesar Chavez, this important work also looks closely at how different groups of Mexicans—U.S. born, bracero, and undocumented—confront…
The career of Chef Zarela Martinez and a changing Mexican foodscape in New York City, 1981–2011
This article discusses Mexican food’s proliferation in New York City from the 1980s onward and focuses specifically on the career of Zarela Martinez, an immigrant Mexican chef who achieved renown by serving haute regional Mexican dishes in her Manhattan restaurant. Martinez rose to celebrity through a confluence of circumstances and spent her career confronting stereotypes about Mexican food as inherently simple, fast, and cheap. Arguing instead …
Racial Migrations
Book Review| March 01 2021 Racial Migrations: New York City and the Revolutionary Politics of the Spanish Caribbean, 1850–1902 by Jesse E. Hoffnung-Garskof Racial Migrations: New York City and the Revolutionary Politics of the Spanish Caribbean, 1850–1902, Hoffnung-Garskof, Jesse E., Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2019, ix + 275 pp., $35.00 (cloth) Lori A. Flores Lori A. Flores Stony Brook University Search for other works by this aut…
Colonial Migrants at the Heart of Empire
Redeeming La Raza
Redeeming La Raza: Transborder Modernity, Race, Respectability, and Rights, by Gabriela González Redeeming La Raza: Transborder Modernity, Race, Respectability, and Rights, by Gabriela González (New York: Oxford U.P., 2018, pp. 196. £64). Lori A Flores Lori A Flores Stony Brook University, NY, USA [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 136, Issue 57…
Special Issue on Workers and Obsolescence
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Wreathed in Worry, Pining for Protection
Journal Article Wreathed in Worry, Pining for Protection: Latino Forestry Workers and Historical Traumas in Maine Get access Lori A Flores Lori A Flores Associate professor of history at Stony Brook University (SUNY) Readers may contact Flores at [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 109, Issue 4, March 2023, Pages 828–854, https://doi.org/10.1093/ja…
Night Work across Time and Place
This introduction provides context for this special feature on night work across time and place. It outlines past debates over the propriety and necessity of night shifts, as well as present and future challenges and opportunities for night workers, activists, and researchers
Labor Book Forum Response
Intimate Eating
Political science (10 works) · Law (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Latin American and Latino Studies (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · History (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · History (4 works) · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works)