HISTS20
Latina Power! U.S. Latina Labor History
History
BC
Subject code
HIST
Course Number
S20
Department(s)
Instructor(s)
E. Bernardino
Course Long Title
Latina Power! U.S. Latina Labor History
Cross Listed Courses
Description
One of the first major labor victories for Mexican Americans came from an unlikely source: young, Latina organizers. This course examines these women, their organizing, and the larger contexts of labor movements and the place of Latina women in the mid-twentieth century, focusing on the 1938 Pecan Shellers Strike in San Antonio, Texas, led by an 18-year-old strike leader Emma Tenayuca, and Luisa Moreno, a Guatemalan immigrant who organized workers in Florida and California. Grounded in feminist theory, the course places the strike and Latina workers as critical in core social tensions of the time.
Writing Credit
No writing credit
Departmental Course Attributes - Major/Minor Requirements
(History: Modern), (History: United States)
INDS Program Relationship
IDLL - LALS Program