UC Irvine professor Vicki Ruiz pioneered the study of Mexican-American women—and isn't done
UC Irvine professor Vicki Ruiz pioneered the study of Mexican-American women—and isn't done
- March 15, 2017
- Vicki Ruiz, Chicano/Latino studies and history, via OC Weekly, March 15, 2017
As Obama put the medal around her neck in the East Room, the first for an Anteater, emotions swelled through the scholar. Ruiz is a giant in American history for doing something academia never bothered with until she came along: show that Mexican-American women in the past had lives outside of making babies and cooking.
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