LEADER 03500nam 2200469 450 001 9910154741403321 005 20180511101429.0 010 $a0-19-934045-5 010 $a0-19-934044-7 035 $a(CKB)3710000000971671 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4770637 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000971671 100 $a20170104h20172017 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aReceive our memories $ethe letters of Luz Moreno, 1950-1952 /$fJose? Orozco 210 1$aNew York, New York :$cOxford University Press,$d2017. 210 4$dİ2017 215 $a1 online resource (289 pages) $cillustrations 311 $a0-19-934043-9 311 $a0-19-934042-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aThe Morenos of San Miguel el Alto -- "Follow your path my beloved children, go in peace": on saying goodbye and keeping in contact -- "Humanity cries tears of blood": on religion, epistles, and the end of the world -- "El miserable pueblo" : on being poor and knowing it -- "Newspapers are liars": on the importance of reading and writing -- "The anxieties of an old man are very sad": on being old and preparing to die -- Afterword. 330 $a"Receive our Memories is a rare study of an epistolary relationship for individuals whose migration from Mexico has been looked at en masse, but not from such a personal and human angle. The heart of the book consists of eighty translated and edited versions of letters from Luz Moreno, a poor, uneducated Mexican sharecropper, to his daughter, a recent e?migre? to California, in the 1950s. These are contextualized and framed in light of immigration and labor history, the histories of Mexico and the United States in this period, and family history. Although Moreno's letters include many of the affective concerns and quotidian subject matter that are the heart and soul of most immigrant correspondence, they also reveal his deep attachment to a wider world that he has never seen. They include extensive discussions on the political events of his day (the Cold War, the Korean War, the atomic bomb, the conflict between Truman and MacArthur), ruminations on culture and religion (the role of Catholicism in the modern world, the dangers of Protestantism to Mexican immigrants to the United States), and extensive deliberations on the philosophical questions that would naturally preoccupy the mind of an elderly and sick man: Is life worth living? What is death? Will I be rewarded or punished in death? What does it mean to live a moral life? The thoughtfulness of Moreno's meditations and quantity of letters he penned, provide historians with the rare privilege of reading a part of the Mexican national narrative that, as Mexican author Elena Poniatowska notes, is usually "written daily, and daily erased."--Provided by publisher. 606 $aMexican American families$vCorrespondence 606 $aFathers and daughters$vCorrespondence 607 $aSan Miguel el Alto (Mexico)$vSocial life and customs$y20th century 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aMexican American families 615 0$aFathers and daughters 676 $a306.874089/6872073 700 $aOrozco$b Jose?$01244398 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910154741403321 996 $aReceive our memories$92886690 997 $aUNINA