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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Perales, Monica.

Contributor:

William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mexican Americans--Texas--Smeltertown--History.

Mexican Americans.

Mexican Americans--Texas--Smeltertown--Biography.

Mexican Americans--Texas--Smeltertown--Ethnic identity.

Working class--Texas--Smeltertown--History.

Working class.

Smelting--Social aspects--Texas--Smeltertown--History.

Smelting.

Community life--Texas--Smeltertown--History.

Community life.

Collective memory--Texas--Smeltertown.

Collective memory.

Company towns--Mexican-American Border Region--Case studies.

Company towns.

Smeltertown (Tex.)--History.

Smeltertown (Tex.).

Smeltertown (Tex.)--Biography.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (350 p.)

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill, NC : University of North Carolina Press, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

"Published in association with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

979-88-908852-3-4

979-88-9313-424-7

1-4696-0498-1

0-8078-9956-9

OCLC:

682622938