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
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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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