"Like the best ethnographies, this is a wonderful read, but also deeply informative. The scholarship is outstanding."
— Miguel Centeno, Musgrave Professor of Sociology, Princeton University
"This book is a powerful analysis of immigrant women's experience of oppression and resistance. The author interrogates how color, class, and gender matter when investigating the contours and margins of Latinidad against the backdrop of structural changes in the labor market."
— Nancy López, co-editor of Mapping Race (Rutgers University Press)
"Norma Fuentes's new book draws on many years of fieldwork and contributes important insights on Dominican and Mexican women’s lives and life chances in New York. Focusing on these increasingly female migration flows, particularly interesting is that Fuentes notes how their lives and welfare are affected by their phenotype and how they fit into local racial hierarchies."
— Robert Smith, author of Mexican New York: Transnational Worlds of New Immigrants
"This book is a powerful analysis of immigrant women's experience of oppression and resistance. The author interrogates how color, class, and gender matter when investigating the contours and margins of Latinidad against the backdrop of structural changes in the labor market."
— Nancy López, co-editor of Mapping Race (Rutgers University Press)
“Like the best ethnographies, this is a wonderful read, but also deeply informative. The scholarship is outstanding.”— Miguel Centeno, Musgrave Professor of Sociology, Princeton University