EMMA
AMADOR
PUBLICATIONS
Forthcoming
“Collective Care Is Essential: Puerto Rican Feminist Activists and Welfare Rights Organizing after 1960,” Journal of American Ethnic History. Forthcoming, Fall 2026.
“Unruly Domestics: Puerto Rican Women Care Workers, Reproductive Labor, and Feminist Political Organizing in the United States,” chapter for edited volume Care & Capitalism in the Twentieth Century, edited by Kirsten Swinth & Sarah Knott. Forthcoming, Duke University Press in 2026.
“The Making of a ‘Mainstream Hispanic’ Feminist: Carmen Delgado Votaw, the National Conference of Puerto Rican Women, and the History of US Feminisms after 1970,” chapter for edited volume, Latina Politica: U.S. Political Histories, edited by A.K. Sandoval-Strausz, Benjamin Johnson, and Geraldo Cadava. Accepted, Penn University Press.
“Joyful Collaborations: Antonia Pantoja in California and the History of Education for Community Development,” chapter for edited volume, Rooted+Relational: Archives, Memory & The Present Past of Puerto Rico, edited by the Center for Puerto Rican Studies. Forthcoming, edited volume to be published by the Center for Puerto Rican Studies Press.
Published
Emma Amador, “Caring for Labor History,” Forum: Starting from Home: Four New Spirits Engage Labor History, LABOR: Studies in Working-Class History (17:4, December 2020): 65-69.
Emma Amador, “Linked Histories of Welfare, Labor, and Puerto Rican Migration,” Forum: Puerto Rico and the United States at Critical Junctures, Modern American History (2: Fall 2019): 165-168.
Emma Amador, “Women Ask Relief for Puerto Ricans:” Social Workers, the Social Security Act and Puerto Rican Communities, 1933-1943,” LABOR: Studies in Working Class History of the Americas (12:3, December 2016): 105-129.
Emma Amador, "Organizing Puerto Rican Domestics: Resistance and Household Labor Reform in the Puerto Rican Diaspora after 1930," ILWCH: International Labor and Working-Class History (No. 88 Fall 2015), pp 67-86.
