Ybor City
Crucible of the Latina South
By Sarah McNamara
266 pp., 6.125 x 9.25, 12 halftones, 1 map
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Paperback ISBN: 978-1-4696-6816-1
Published: April 2023 -
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4696-6815-4
Published: April 2023 -
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4696-6817-8
Published: February 2023
Justice, Power, and Politics
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Awards & distinctions
2023 Sara A. Whaley Book Prize, National Women's Studies Association
Historian Sarah McNamara tells the story of immigrant and U.S.-born Latinas/os who organized strikes, marched against fascism, and criticized U.S. foreign policy. While many members of the immigrant generation maintained their dedication to progressive ideals for years to come, those who came of age in the wake of World War II distanced themselves from leftist politics amidst the Red Scare and the wrecking ball of urban renewal. This portrait of the political shifts that defined Ybor City highlights the underexplored role of women’s leadership within movements for social and economic justice as it illustrates how people, places, and politics become who and what they are.
About the Author
Sarah McNamara is assistant professor of history at Texas A&M University.
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"Ybor City is the best that Latinx history has to offer—deeply researched and rigorous but with respect toward diasporic peoples and the rich communities they build and evolve within."—NACLA Report on the Americas
"The book is not some alternative perspective on what happened in Ybor City, but real history and storytelling verified by records in the archives of the USF special collections, petitions in the City of Tampa archives, and the city directories that are part of a treasure chest of artifacts at the Tampa Bay History Center."—Creative Loafing Tampa Bay
"Sarah McNamara brings a dedication to historical craft—a fealty to the archives as well as command of oral history as practice and praxis. Writing with passion and precision, she always ensures that her interpretations are solidly grounded in primary sources. Ybor City will become a benchmark work in Latino history, labor studies, and the U.S. South."—Vicki L. Ruiz, University of California, Irvine
"In masterfully recovering the world of the Cuban women and other Latinas who called Ybor City home, Sarah McNamara offers important new stories about racial, class, and gender politics in this often-forgotten city of the Jim Crow South. She takes the reader on the women's powerful journeys through Ybor's cigar factories, centros, and dance floors as they fought the colonial, imperialist, and anti-labor forces that consumed their day-to-day lives."—Julio Capó Jr., Florida International University
"Ybor City is poised to make valuable contributions to women's history, labor history, urban history, and Latinx history. Through McNamara's focus on Cuban women laborers and organizers at the end of the nineteenth century and in the first half of the twentieth, we learn valuable lessons about three generations of Americans in a southern city."—Perla M. Gurrero, University of Maryland