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Carmen Whalen

Professor of History

B.A. (1985) Hampshire College
M.A. (1989) Rutgers University
Ph.D. (1994) Rutgers University

Email: Carmen.T.Whalen@williams.edu
Phone: 413-597-2224
410 Stetson Hall
On leave 2008-2009

Courses:

LATS 105: Latina/o Identities: Constructions, Contestations, and Expressions
LATS 286/ HIST 286: Latina/o History From 1846 to the Present
LATS 386/ HIST 386: Latinas in the Global Economy: Work, Migration, and Households
LATS 387/ HIST 387: Community Building and Social Movements in Latino/a History
LATS 471/ HIST 471: Comparative Latina/o Migrations

Selected Publications

Book and Edited Volumes:

El Viaje: Puerto Ricans of Philadelphia (Images of America Series, Arcadia Publishers, 2006)

The Puerto Rican Diaspora: Historical Perspectives (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2005), co-edited with Víctor Vázquez Hernández

From Puerto Rico to Philadelphia: Puerto Rican Workers and Postwar Economies (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2001)

Articles and Book Chapters:

“Sweatshops Here and There: The Garment Industry, Latinas, and Labor Migrations," International Labor and Working-Class History, 61 (Spring 2002): 45-68.

“Labor Migrants or ‘Submissive Wives’: Competing Narratives of Puerto Rican Women in the Post-World War II Era," Puerto Rican Women’s History: New Perspectives, ed. Félix V. Matos Rodríguez and Linda Delgado (Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1998), 206-226.

“Bridging Homeland and Barrio Politics: The Young Lords in Philadelphia," The Puerto Rican Movement: Voices from the Diaspora, ed. Andrés Torres and José Velázquez (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1998), 107-123.