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Author
Publisher
New York University Press
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
2012 Americo Paredes Book Award Winner for Non-Fiction presented by the Center for Mexican American Studies at South Texas College
Selected as a 2012 Outstanding Title by AAUP University Press Books for Public and Secondary School Libraries
A complex rendering of the upbringing of Olivia--the daughter of a live-in maid to a wealthy family
This is Olivia's story. Born in Los Angeles, she is taken to Mexico to live with her extended family until...
Author
Series
Publisher
Routledge
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
"This Tenth Anniversary Edition of Maid in the U.S.A., the classic investigation of female domestic workers, contains a new introduction by the author and an afterword by noted scholar Dorothy E. Smith. One of the most important investigations of private household workers and women of color, this new edition remains vital to our understanding of labor and inequality in the United States."--BOOK JACKET.
Author
Publisher
Legacy Lit
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Women of color and children of immigrants have a different experience when climbing the ladder toward success. Throughout her career, bestselling author and MSNBC producer Daniela Pierre-Bravo was driven to land a good job, achieve the American Dream, and make her family proud. As an undocumented immigrant from Chile, she went through her high school and college years in the shadows, working in the back of kitchens and selling cosmetics door-to-door...
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