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World of Our Mothers : Mexican Revolution-Era Immigrants and Their Stories
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"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, selec...
"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"--
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- English
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- 1st ed
- Amherst : University of Arizona Press, 2022
- ©2022
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- 1 online resource (385 pages)
- ISBNs
- 9780816546671, 0816546673, 0816546657
- OCLC
- on1298710534
- Foreword / by Irasema Coronado and Christine Marín -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. The Mexican Revolution of 1910 -- 2. Reenganche: the promise of good-paying jobs -- 3. Linking one country with another, 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