From coveralls to zoot suits : the lives of Mexican American women on the World War II home front /

"During World War II, unprecedented employment avenues opened up for women and minorities in U.S. defense industries at the same time that massive population shifts and the war challenged Americans to rethink notions of race. At this extraordinary historical moment, Mexican American women found...

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Библиографические подробности
Главный автор: Escobedo, Elizabeth Rachel (Автор)
Формат: Licensed eBooks
Язык:английский
Опубликовано: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press [2013]
Online-ссылка:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5149/9781469602066_escobedo
Оглавление:
  • The Pachuca panic
  • Americanos todos : Mexican Women and the wartime state and media
  • Reenvisioning Rosie : Mexican Women and wartime defense work
  • Respectable rebellions : Mexican women and the world of wartime leisure
  • Rights and postwar life.