Ybor City: Crucible of the Latina South

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

Ybor City is a deeply researched book that brings the rich history of Latina labor organizing . . . into vibrant visibility through the stories of Louisa Moreno and other Latina workers and organizers. . . . McNamara seamlessly interweaves Latina worker' resistance into the larger colonial and political contexts."-Sara A. Whaley, Book Prize Committee, National Women's Studies Association

Their story broadens our understanding of Latino politics in the state and of labor and ethno-racial community organizing in the American South more broadly, while also providing a formidable example of Latino solidarity, ever timelier in the wake of the renewed far-right politics of the Florida of today."-The Volunteer