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Author Taylor, José Inez, 1937-

Title Alex and the hobo : a Chicano life and story / José Inez Taylor and James M. Taggart
Published Austin : University of Texas Press, 2003

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 206 pages) : illustrations, maps
Contents Illustrations -- Preface -- CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION -- PART I: THE STORY -- CHAPTER 2: ALEX AND THE HOBO -- PART II: THE LIFE -- CHAPTER 3: THE VALLEY -- CHAPTER 4: AWARENESS -- CHAPTER 5: SOCIAL STRUCTURE -- CHAPTER 6: ANASTACIO TAYLOR -- CHAPTER 7: BEATRIZ MONDRAGÓN -- CHAPTER 8: WOMEN IN PERIL -- CHAPTER 9: CONCLUSION -- APPENDIX: Juana's Witchcraft Testimony -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary When a ten-year-old boy befriends a mysterious hobo in his southern Colorado hometown in the early 1940s, he learns about evil in his community and takes his first steps toward manhood by attempting to protect his new friend from corrupt officials. Though a fictional story, Alex and the Hobo is written out of the life experiences of its author, José Inez (Joe) Taylor, and it realistically portrays a boy's coming-of-age as a Spanish-speaking man who must carve out an honorable place for himself in a class-stratified and Anglo-dominated society. In this innovative ethnography, anthropologist James Taggart collaborates with Joe Taylor to explore how Alex and the Hobo sprang from Taylor's life experiences and how it presents an insider's view of Mexicano culture and its constructions of manhood. They frame the story (included in its entirety) with chapters that discuss how it encapsulates notions that Taylor learned from the Chicano movement, the farmworkers' union, his community, his father, his mother, and his religion. Taggart gives the ethnography a solid theoretical underpinning by discussing how the story and Taylor's account of how he created it represent an act of resistance to the class system that Taylor perceives as destroying his native culture
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-198) and index
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Subject Taylor, José Inez, 1937-
Taylor, José Inez, 1937- -- Settings
SUBJECT Taylor, José Inez, 1937- fast
Subject Mexican Americans -- Colorado -- Antonito -- Biography
Mexican American authors -- Biography
Political activists -- Colorado -- Antonito -- Biography
Labor movement -- Colorado -- Antonito -- History -- 20th century
Mexican Americans -- Ethnic identity.
Mexican American children -- Fiction
Tramps -- Fiction
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Social Scientists & Psychologists.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- General.
Labor movement
Mexican American authors
Mexican American children
Mexican Americans
Mexican Americans -- Ethnic identity
Political activists
Setting (Literature)
Tramps
Politik
Literatur
SUBJECT Antonito (Colo.) -- Biography
Subject Colorado -- Antonito
Staat Colorado
Chicanos.
Genre/Form collective biographies.
autobiographies (literary works)
Autobiographies
Biographies
Fiction
History
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
Author Taggart, James M., 1941-
LC no. 2002015454
ISBN 0292797850
9780292797857