She is the author of Dark Sweat, White Gold: California Farm Workers, Cotton and the New Deal, and Editor of Manuel Gamio: El inmigrante Mexicano: la historia de su vida: entrevistas completas 1926-1927. Among her articles are "Historical Perspectives on Mexican Transnationalism: With Notes from Angumacutiro" and "Raiz Fuerte: Oral History and Mexicana Farmworkers." She is currently working on a manuscript about binational Mexican activism in the early 20th century. “Keeping Community, Challenging Boundaries: Indigenous Migrants, Internationalist Workers, and Mexican Revolutionaries, 1900-1920,” in John Tutino, ed Mexico and Mexicans in the History and Culture of the United States