| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 371 pages) : illustrations, map |
| Contents |
Foreword / by Irasema Coronado and Christine Marín -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. The Mexican Revolution of 1910 -- 2. Reenganche : the promise of well-paying jobs -- 3. Linking one country with another : Mexicans in the United States, 1848-1960 -- 4. Family : shifting views -- 5. Arizona mining towns -- 6. Barrio life in Phoenix : stay in your corner -- 7. Midwestern Catholic refugees -- Epilogue -- Appendix A. Summaries of the women interviewed -- Appendix B. Conducting a community resolana |
| Summary |
"World of Our Mothers: Mexican Revolution Era Immigrants, highlights the largely forgotten stories of forty-five women immigrants. Through interviews in Arizona mining towns, Phoenix barrios, selected areas of California, Texas, and the Midwest, we learned how they negotiated their lives with their circumstances"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 24, 2022) |
| Subject |
Women immigrants -- United States -- Social conditions -- 20th century
|
|
Women immigrants -- United States -- Biography
|
|
HISTORY / General
|
|
Emigration and immigration.
|
|
Women immigrants.
|
|
Women immigrants -- Social conditions.
|
| SUBJECT |
Mexico -- History -- Revolution, 1910-1920 -- Refugees -- Biography
|
|
Mexico -- Emigration and immigration -- History
|
|
United States -- Emigration and immigration -- History
|
| Subject |
Mexico.
|
|
United States.
|
| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
|
|
History.
|
|
Biographies.
|
|
Biographies.
|
| Form |
Electronic book
|
| Author |
De la Torre Montiel, Yvonne 1947- author.
|
|
Coronado, Irasema, writer of foreword.
|
|
Marín, Christine, writer of foreword.
|
| LC no. |
2021061664 |
| ISBN |
0816546673 |
|
9780816546671 |
|
