Smeltertown : making and remembering a Southwest border community
Monica Perales
Bok · Engelsk · 2010
| Utgitt | Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press , cop. 2010
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| Omfang | xiv, 333 s. : ill. kart
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| Opplysninger | pt. 1. Making places -- Making a border city -- Creating Smeltertown -- pt. 2. Making identities -- We're just smelter people -- We were one hundred percent Mexican -- She was very American -- pt. 3. Remembering Smeltertown -- The demise of Smeltertown -- Epilogue: Finding Smeltertown.. - Traces the history of Smeltertown, Texas, a city located on the banks of the Rio Grande that was home to generations of ethnic Mexicans who worked at the American Smelting and Refining Company in El Paso, Texas, with information from newspapers, personal archives, photographs, employee records, parish newsletters, and interviews
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| Emner | Collective memory - Texas - Smeltertown.
Community life - History. - Texas - Smeltertown Company towns - Mexican-American Border Region Mexican Americans - Texas - Smeltertown Vis mer... Mexican Americans - Ethnic identity. - Texas - Smeltertown
Mexican Americans - History. - Texas - Smeltertown Smelting - Social aspects - History. - Texas - Smeltertown Working class - History. - Texas - Smeltertown Arbeidere Arbeiderklasse Etniske grupper Grenseområder Industrisamfunn Meksikanere Metallindustri |
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| ISBN | 0807834114. - 080787146X. - 9780807834114. - 9780807871461
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