Migrant daughter [[electronic resource] ] : coming of age as a Mexican American woman

• Autore: Tywoniak Frances Esquibel
• Pubblicazione: Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2000
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (290 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.4886872073092; 979.4/0046872073
• Soggetto topico: Mexican American college students; Mexican American migrant agricultural laborers; Tywoniak, Frances Esquibel,-- 1931-; Mexican American women - Ethnic identity - California; Mexican American women - New Mexico; Mexican American college students - California - Berkeley; Mexican American women
• Altri autori: GarcíaMario T
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Preliminaries; CONTENTS; Acknowledgments; Introduction by Mario T. Garc'a; 1. My Roots in New Mexico; 2. Moving on to a New Life in California; 3. Migrant Souls; 4. Discovering the Limits of the Barrio in Junior High; 5. Joining the High School Track to Success; 6. Scholarship Girl; 7. Off to College; 8. Settling into the Berkeley Ambiance; 9. New Vistas and New Connections; Postscript
• Sommario/riassunto: Taking us from the open spaces of rural New Mexico and the fields of California's Great Central Valley to the intellectual milieu of student life in Berkeley during the 1950's, this memoir, based on an oral history by Mario T. Garcia, is the powerful and moving testimonio of a young Mexican American woman's struggle to rise out of poverty.
• Titolo autorizzato: Migrant daughter
• ISBN: 0-520-92304-9; 1-59734-749-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910780083303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II