¡Sí, Ella Puede!
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¡Sí, Ella Puede!

The Rhetorical Legacy of Dolores Huerta and the United Farm Workers (Inter-America Series)

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¡Sí, Ella Puede!

The Rhetorical Legacy of Dolores Huerta and the United Farm Workers (Inter-America Series)

About this book

A "valuable" analysis of the speeches, letters, and interviews of the United Farm Workers cofounder and Latina activist ( Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies ).
 
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.
Referencing the theoretical works of Pierre Bourdieu, Chela Sandoval, Gloria Anzaldúa, and others, Sowards closely analyzes Huerta's speeches, letters, and interviews. She shows how Huerta navigates the complex intersections of race, ethnicity, gender, language, and class through the myriad challenges faced by women activists of color. Sowards's approach to studying Huerta's rhetorical influence offers a unique perspective for understanding the transformative relationship between agency and social justice.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Series Page
  3. Frontispiece
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright
  6. Dedication
  7. Contents
  8. Acknowledgments
  9. Abbreviations
  10. Introduction
  11. 1. Farm Worker Organizing and the Advent of the UFW: 1900 to 1993
  12. 2. Dolores Huerta’s Life: Intersectional Habitus as Rhetorical Agency
  13. 3. Letters to César Chávez: Building Collaborative Agency
  14. 4. Motherhood, Familia, Emotionality: Strategic Use of Gendered Public Persona
  15. 5. Public Persona of Differential Bravery through Collaborative Egalitarianism and Courageous Optimism
  16. 6. Dolores Huerta, Iconicity, and Social Movements
  17. Epilogue
  18. References
  19. Index