Embracing the spirit
Embracing the spirit
- April 20, 2015
- Book by Rosas on Bracero Program’s familial consequences honored
Abrazando el Espíritu by Ana Rosas, Chicano/Latino studies and history associate professor, tells the story
of Mexican immigrants and their families who embraced the spirit of making life work
while fathers, brothers and sons were dispersed across the U.S. border with the Bracero
Program. Published in September 2014, the book was awarded this year’s Theodore Saloutos
Memorial Book Award from the Immigration and Ethnic Historic Society. The award recognizes
the title as the best book on any aspect of the immigration history of the United
States. Rosas received the honor at the association’s annual dinner meeting in St.
Louis April 17.
Rosas joined the UCI faculty in 2007 after earning her B.A. in history, American studies,
and ethnicity, and M.A. and Ph.D. in history from the University of Southern California.
She is a past recipient of a Ford Fellowship and Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship,
Stanford University Center for the Study of the North American West Doctoral Fellowship
and University of California President's Postdoctoral Fellowship. In addition to her
work on the history and impacts of the Bracero Program, she pursues research more
broadly on Chicana/o history, comparative immigration and ethnic history, gender studies,
film and media studies, and oral life history.
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