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¡Sí, ella puede! : the rhetorical legacy of Dolores Huerta and the United Farm Workers / Stacey K. Sowards

By:

Sowards, Stacey K

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Publisher: Austin : University of Texas Press, 2019Edition: First editionDescription: 186 p. ; 23 cmISBN:

9781477317679

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DDC classification:

331.4 SOW 23

Contents:

Farm worker organizing and the advent of the UFW: 1900 to 1993 -- Dolores Huerta's life: intersectional habitus as rhetorical agency -- Letters to César Chávez: building collaborative agency -- Motherhood, familia, emotionality: strategic use of gendered public persona -- Public persona of differential bravery through collaborative egalitarianism and courageous optimism -- Dolores Huerta, iconicity, and social movements -- Epilogue.

Summary: Since the 1950s, Latina activist Dolores Huerta has been a fervent leader and organizer in the struggle for farmworkers’ rights within the Latina/o community. A cofounder of the United Farm Workers union in the 1960s alongside César Chávez, Huerta was a union vice president for nearly four decades before starting her own foundation in the early 2000s. She continues to act as a dynamic speaker, passionate lobbyist, and dedicated figure for social and political change, but her crucial contributions and commanding presence have often been overshadowed by those of Chávez and other leaders in the Chicana/o movement. In this new study, Stacey K. Sowards closely examines Huerta’s rhetorical skills both in and out of the public eye and defines Huerta’s vital place within Chicana/o history.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Notes	Date due	Barcode
Libro - Monografía	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C. Sala Ingles	331.4 SOW (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	non fiction		016047

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Since the 1950s, Latina activist Dolores Huerta has been a fervent leader and organizer in the struggle for farmworkers’ rights within the Latina/o community. A cofounder of the United Farm Workers union in the 1960s alongside César Chávez, Huerta was a union vice president for nearly four decades before starting her own foundation in the early 2000s. She continues to act as a dynamic speaker, passionate lobbyist, and dedicated figure for social and political change, but her crucial contributions and commanding presence have often been overshadowed by those of Chávez and other leaders in the Chicana/o movement. In this new study, Stacey K. Sowards closely examines Huerta’s rhetorical skills both in and out of the public eye and defines Huerta’s vital place within Chicana/o history.

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