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Mexican voices/American dreams : an oral history of Mexican immigration to the United States / Marilyn P. Davis

By:

Davis, Marilyn P

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : H. Holt , c1990.Edition: 1st edDescription: xiv, 446 p. ; 24 cmISBN:

9780805012163

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

973.0468 DAV

LOC classification:

E184.M5 D28 1990

Summary: This is a wonderfully revealing and warm interpretation of Mexican settlement in the United States from the immigrants' point of view. The author, an anthropologist who has taught primary school for many years in Mexico, used her familiarity and cultural skills to obtain detailed oral interviews with a wide range of participants in the immigration process; she provides a historical overview from the 1920s to the present by including the testimony of both sexes and all ages, extending to the children and grandchildren of early immigrants. The first-person accounts ring true and are complemented by helpful transitional narratives, placing each story in the proper setting.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Libro - Monografía	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C.	973.0468 DAV (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		039336

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Includes index.

This is a wonderfully revealing and warm interpretation of Mexican settlement in the United States from the immigrants' point of view. The author, an anthropologist who has taught primary school for many years in Mexico, used her familiarity and cultural skills to obtain detailed oral interviews with a wide range of participants in the immigration process; she provides a historical overview from the 1920s to the present by including the testimony of both sexes and all ages, extending to the children and grandchildren of early immigrants. The first-person accounts ring true and are complemented by helpful transitional narratives, placing each story in the proper setting.

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