presents

"Nuestra America:  Latino History as U.S. History"

 by

Dr. VICKI L. RUIZ
Professor of History and Chicano/Latino Studies

University of California, Irvine

Friday, November 10, 2006

7:00 - 8:30 PM

Sterling Evans Library, Room 204E

Vicki L. Ruiz is Professor of History and Chicana/o Studies at the University of California, Irvine.  She is the author of From Out of the Shadows: Mexican Women in 20^th Century America (1999) and Cannery Women, Cannery Lives: Mexican Women, Unionization, and the California Food Processing Industry, 1930-1950 (1987).  She has edited or co-edited several books, including Unequal Sisters: A Multicultural Reader in U.S. Women’s History (3^rd ed., 2000) and Latina Legacies: Identity, Biography, and Community (2005).  Among many honors, she is past president (2005-2006) of the Organization of American Historians.

A public lecture sponsored by the Department of History.

For additional information, please contact Dr. Walter L. Buenger by email: w-buenger@tamu.edu