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Author Perales, Monica.

Title Smeltertown : making and remembering a Southwest border community / Monica Perales
Published Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2010

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 333 pages) : illustrations, maps
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
Summary Nestled on the banks of the Rio Grande, at the heart of a railroad, mining, and smelting empire, Smeltertown was home to generations of ethnic Mexicans who labored at the American Smelting and Refining Company in El Paso, Texas. Using newspapers, personal archives, photographs, employee records, parish newsletters, and interviews with former residents, including her own relatives, Monica Perales unearths the history of this forgotten community
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Mexican Americans -- Texas -- Smeltertown -- History
Mexican Americans -- Texas -- Smeltertown -- Biography
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 -- Case studies
HISTORY -- State & Local -- General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Labor & Industrial Relations.
Collective memory
Community life
Company towns
Mexican Americans
Mexican Americans -- Ethnic identity
Working class
SUBJECT Smeltertown (Tex.) -- History
Smeltertown (Tex.) -- Biography
Subject North America -- Mexican-American Border Region
Texas -- Smeltertown
Genre/Form Biographies
Case studies
History
Form Electronic book
Author William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies.
LC no. 2010004479
ISBN 9780807899564
0807899569
9781469604985
1469604981