04085nam 2200745 a 450 991081172510332120240418040811.00-292-79785-010.7560/781795(CKB)1000000000453922(SSID)ssj0000100937(PQKBManifestationID)11124513(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000100937(PQKBWorkID)10043236(PQKB)11114343(MiAaPQ)EBC3443278(OCoLC)60334052(MdBmJHUP)muse2079(Au-PeEL)EBL3443278(CaPaEBR)ebr10245763(OCoLC)614535216(DE-B1597)587684(DE-B1597)9780292797857(EXLCZ)99100000000045392220020920d2003 ub 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrAlex and the hobo[electronic resource] a Chicano life and story /José Inez Taylor and James M. Taggart1st ed.Austin University of Texas Press2003xiii, 206 p. ill., mapsBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-292-78179-2 Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-198) and index.Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION -- PART I THE STORY -- CHAPTER 2 ALEX AND THE HOBO -- PART II THE LIFE -- CHAPTER 3 THE VALLEY -- CHAPTER 4 AWARENESS -- CHAPTER 5 SOCIAL STRUCTURE -- CHAPTER 6 ANASTACIO TAYLOR -- CHAPTER 7 BEATRIZ MONDRAGÓN -- CHAPTER 8 WOMEN IN PERIL -- CHAPTER 9 CONCLUSION -- APPENDIX Juana’s Witchcraft Testimony -- Notes -- Bibliography -- IndexWhen a ten-year-old boy befriends a mysterious hobo in his southern Colorado hometown in the early 1940s, he learns about evil in his community and takes his first steps toward manhood by attempting to protect his new friend from corrupt officials. Though a fictional story, Alex and the Hobo is written out of the life experiences of its author, José Inez (Joe) Taylor, and it realistically portrays a boy's coming-of-age as a Spanish-speaking man who must carve out an honorable place for himself in a class-stratified and Anglo-dominated society. In this innovative ethnography, anthropologist James Taggart collaborates with Joe Taylor to explore how Alex and the Hobo sprang from Taylor's life experiences and how it presents an insider's view of Mexicano culture and its constructions of manhood. They frame the story (included in its entirety) with chapters that discuss how it encapsulates notions that Taylor learned from the Chicano movement, the farmworkers' union, his community, his father, his mother, and his religion. Taggart gives the ethnography a solid theoretical underpinning by discussing how the story and Taylor's account of how he created it represent an act of resistance to the class system that Taylor perceives as destroying his native culture.Mexican AmericansColoradoAntonitoBiographyMexican American authorsBiographyPolitical activistsColoradoAntonitoBiographyLabor movementColoradoAntonitoHistory20th centuryMexican AmericansEthnic identityMexican American childrenFictionTrampsFictionAntonito (Colo.)BiographyMexican AmericansMexican American authorsPolitical activistsLabor movementHistoryMexican AmericansEthnic identity.Mexican American childrenTramps305.868/720788/0092BTaylor José Inez1937-1676651Taggart James M.1941-867977MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910811725103321Alex and the hobo4042986UNINA