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The experiences and voices of rural Colorado Mexicanas have been left out of the historical record for too long, and recuperating them enhances understanding of the diversity of Mexican and Mexican American women. In the mid-1850s, the earliest Hispanic settlers immigrated from Rio Arriba County, New Mexico and settled in the agricultural hamlets of Conejos, Guadalupe, Mogote, Las Mesitas, San Rafael, San Antonio, Ortiz, La Florida, and Lobatos on the Cone-jos, San Antonio, and Los Pinos rivers. This chapter utilizes food-centered life histories to project Helen Ruybal’s voice into the public arena and counter the silencing that has been a central weapon in women’s oppression. Differential consciousness is a key strategy used by dominated peoples to survive demeaning and disempowering structures and ideologies. Women can develop differential consciousness in their relationship to food, as Ruybal did, by challenging the dichotomy between production and reproduction that has been so detrimental to women’s social status.
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