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Smeltertown : making and remembering a Southwest border community
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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 E...
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.
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- Creator
- Monica Perales
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- Books
- Language
- English
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- Publication
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- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2010]
- ©2010
- Physical Details
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- xiv, 333 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780807834114, 080787146X, 9781469604985, 9780807899564, 0807834114, 9780807871461, 0807899569, 1469604981
- OCLC
- ocn966875475, ocn682622938, ocn539075816
- "Published in association with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University."
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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
Subjects
- 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.
- Smeltertown (Tex.) -- History.
- Smeltertown (Tex.) -- Biography.