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Carmen Takes Charge: Reflections on Cannery Women, Cannery Lives a public talk by Vicki Ruiz

When President Barack Obama awarded Ruiz a National Humanities Medal, the White House citation read: "Dr. Ruiz has pioneered the history of twentieth-century Latinas in a distinguished career that began with collecting oral testimony from Mexican immigrants who worked in U.S. canning factories." First published in 1987, Cannery Women, Cannery Lives was the first scholarly book-length study devoted to the lives of Mexican women in the United States.