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



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Autore: Perales Monica Visualizza persona
Titolo: Smeltertown : making and remembering a Southwest border community / / Monica Perales Visualizza cluster
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  Visualizza cluster
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
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