Community Engagement

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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.

In 1968, Mexico saw the birth of a new student movement, but it was short lived. On Oct. 2 of that year police officers and military troops shot into a crowd of unarmed students and civilians in the Plaza de la Tres Culturas in the Mexico City neighborhood of Tlatelolco.

In lieu of flowers, Carolyn’s family has asked for donations to Oxy’s Child Development Center, where three of her grandchildren attended. You can make a donation online; please note that your gift is in Carolyn's memory on the gift form.

Using more than 300 letters exchanged among family members across the U.S.-Mexico borderlands in the 1960s, this talk explores the financial, emotional, and personal longing of young Mexican migrant males. Focusing on the experiences of Rogelio Martínez Serna and that of his male peers in Mexico and the United States, this essay explores his repeated yet often failed attempts to achieve an economically, physically, and emotionally stable family life.