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Record Nr.

UNINA9910975404103321

Autore

Perales Monica

Titolo

Smeltertown : making and remembering a Southwest border community / / Monica Perales

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chapel Hill, NC, : University of North Carolina Press, c2010

ISBN

979-88-908852-3-4

979-88-9313-424-7

1-4696-0498-1

0-8078-9956-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (350 p.)

Disciplina

976.4/96

Soggetti

Mexican Americans - Texas - Smeltertown - History

Mexican Americans - Texas - Smeltertown

Mexican Americans - Texas - Smeltertown - Ethnic identity

Working class - Texas - Smeltertown - History

Smelting - Social aspects - Texas - Smeltertown - History

Community life - Texas - Smeltertown - History

Collective memory - Texas - Smeltertown

Company towns - Mexican-American Border Region

Smeltertown (Tex.) History

Smeltertown (Tex.) Biography

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Published in association with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.