Archives: Publications
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La Vida Chicana and the Art of Savage Discovery
Mary Romero March 20, 1969, was not a usual Thursday afternoon spent waiting for the school bell to ring. Instead, our principal, Sister Benedict, an nounced over the intercom that Cathedral High School was on lock down because riots had…
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Bursting the Foundational Myths of Reproductive Labor under Capitalism: A Call for Brave New Families or Brave New Villages
Bursting the Foundational Myths of Reproductive Labor under Capitalism: A Call for Brave New Families or Brave New Villages by Mary Romero. This work contributes to the sociology of education, examining how institutional structures, pedagogical practices, and hidden curricula shape…
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2023 chapter by Mary Romero and Eric Margolis, Not a Total Institution
L'Homme. Europäische Zeitschrift für Feministische Geschichtswissenschaft, Veronika Sieg:mund, BA MA, c/o Institut für Geschichte, Universität Wien, Universitätsring 1, A-1010 Wien E-Mail: ll1omme.geschichte@wuvie.ac.at Internet: https://lhomme.wuvie.ac.at Geschäftsführende Herausgeberinnen und verantw. i. S. des niedersächs. Pressegesetzes: Christa Hämmerle, Claudia Kraft, Sandra Maß, Claudia…
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Who Takes Care of the Maid’s Children? Exploring the cost of Domestic Service
When a mother works as a live-in domestic, who cares for her own children? Mary Romero’s investigation of this question reveals one of the most painful contradictions of paid care work: the women who nurture other people’s families often do…
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Sisterhood and Domestic Service: Race, Class, and Gender in the Mistress-Maid Relationship
The relationship between a domestic worker and her employer is unlike any other labor arrangement — it unfolds in the intimate space of the home, blurs the boundaries between personal and professional, and is structured by deep inequalities of race,…
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Chicanas Modernize Domestic Service
In this influential study, Mary Romero examines how Chicana domestic workers in the late twentieth century actively transformed the occupation of household labor. Rather than passively accepting the traditional mistress-maid relationship, these women renegotiated the terms of their employment —…
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Life as the Maid’s Daughter: An Exploration of the Everyday Boundaries of Race, Class, and Gender
Growing up as the daughter of a live-in domestic worker, the subject of this study occupied a unique position between two worlds — the affluent household where her mother worked and the working-class community where she was raised. Mary Romero’s…
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Nanny Diaries and Other Stories: Immigrant Women’s Labor in the Social Reproduction of American Families
* A longer version of this paper was originally published in DePaul Law Review 52, no. 3 (2003). •• Ph.D. en Sociología de University of Colorado, Estados Unidos. Profesora de Justice Studies en Arizona State University, Estados Unidos. Correo electrónico:…
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The Inclusion of Citizenship Status in Intersectionality: What Immigration Raids Tells us About Mixed-Status Families, the State and Assimilation
When immigration raids sweep through a community, they do not only affect undocumented individuals — they tear through entire families, including U.S.-citizen children, legal residents, and mixed-status households. In this article, Mary Romero argues that any meaningful analysis of immigration…
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Conceptualizing the Latina Experience in Care Work
Care work performed by Latina immigrants occupies a distinctive position within the American economy — essential yet invisible, intimate yet devalued, shaped by intersecting structures of race, gender, class, and citizenship. In this chapter from the Blackwell Companion to Latino…