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  Dr. Carmen Whalen
 

 

 

Carmen Teresa Whalen is the author of From Puerto Rico to Philadelphia: Puerto Rican Workers and Postwar Economies (Temple University Press, 2001). She also has several chapters in books, including "Bridging Homeland and Barrio Politics: The Young Lords in Philadelphia," in The Puerto Rican Movement: Voices from the Diaspora; and "Labor Migrants or ‘Submissive Wives': Competing Narratives of Puerto Rican Women in the Post-World War II Era," in Puerto Rican Women's History: New Perspectives.

Her new projects include co-editing a book on the histories of eight Puerto Rican communities in the United States, and continuing her research on the garment industry and its impact on Puerto Rican and Dominican women. She is an assistant professor in the History Department at Williams College, where she teaches Latina/o History.



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