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

• Autore: Perales Monica
• Pubblicazione: Chapel Hill, NC, : University of North Carolina Press, c2010
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (350 p.)
• Disciplina: 976.4/96
• Soggetto topico: 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
• Soggetto geografico: Smeltertown (Tex.) History; Smeltertown (Tex.) Biography
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Smeltertown
• ISBN: 979-88-908852-3-4; 979-88-9313-424-7; 1-4696-0498-1; 0-8078-9956-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910975404103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II