Mexican American Voices - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mexican American Voices write by Steven Mintz. This book was released on 2009-05-04. Mexican American Voices available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This short, comprehensive collection of primary documents provides an indispensable introduction to Mexican American history and culture. Includes over 90 carefully chosen selections, with a succinct introduction and comprehensive headnotes that identify the major issues raised by the documents Emphasizes key themes in US history, from immigration and geographical expansion to urbanization, industrialization, and civil rights struggles Includes a 'visual history' chapter of images that supplement the documents, as well as an extensive bibliography
Mexican American Voices
Mexican American Voices - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mexican American Voices write by Steven Mintz. This book was released on 2000-08-03. Mexican American Voices available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Today, Mexican Americans are the youngest and fastest growing ethnic group in the United States. But Mexican Americans are also among the nation’s oldest communities, with a rich and complex history. This book seeks to restore Mexican Americans to their rightful place in the narrative of American history. Through its 71 carefully edited selections, the book draws on the voices of Mexican Americans to chronicle and interpret their experience from the beginnings of Spanish colonization of the northern Mexican frontier to the present. This documentary history provides an indispensable introduction to Mexican American history and culture.
Voices in the Kitchen
Voices in the Kitchen - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Voices in the Kitchen write by Meredith E. Abarca. This book was released on 2006-03-16. Voices in the Kitchen available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “Literally, chilaquiles are a breakfast I grew up eating: fried corn tortillas with tomato-chile sauce. Symbolically, they are the culinary metaphor for how working-class women speak with the seasoning of their food.”—from the Introduction Through the ages and across cultures, women have carved out a domain in which their cooking allowed them to express themselves, strengthen family relationships, and create a world of shared meanings with other women. In Voices in the Kitchen, Meredith E. Abarca features the voices of her mother and several other family members and friends, seated at their kitchen tables, to share the grassroots world view of these working-class Mexican and Mexican American women. In the kitchen, Abarca demonstrates, women assert their own sazón (seasoning), not only in their cooking but also in their lives. Through a series of oral histories, or charlas culinarias (culinary chats), the women interviewed address issues of space, sensual knowledge, artistic and narrative expression, and cultural and social change. From her mother’s breakfast chilaquiles to the most elaborate traditional dinner, these women share their lives as they share their savory, symbolic, and theoretical meanings of food. The charlas culinarias represent spoken personal narratives, testimonial autobiography, and a form of culinary memoir, one created by the cooks-as-writers who speak from their kitchen space. Abarca then looks at writers-as-cooks to add an additional dimension to the understanding of women’s power to define themselves. Voices in the Kitchen joins the extensive culinary research of the last decade in exploring the importance of the knowledge found in the practical, concrete, and temporal aspects of the ordinary practice of everyday cooking.
The Chicanos
The Chicanos - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Chicanos write by Ed Ludwig. This book was released on 1971. The Chicanos available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Writings by and about Mexican Americans by Daniel Garza, Amado Muro, Durango Mendoza, Richard Dokey, Raymond Barrio, Luis Valdez, Cesar Chavez, Sister Mary Prudence Moylan, Ronald Arias, Jesus Ascension Arreola Jr., Manuel Aragon, James Santibanez, Antonio Gomez, Philip D. Ortega, Feliciano Rivera, Richard Vasquez, Reies Lopez Tijerina, Eliu Carranza, Albert Herrera, Roberto and Jose Aragon, Joan Baez, and Enrique Hank Lopez.
Californio Voices
Californio Voices - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Californio Voices write by José Mariá Amador. This book was released on 2005. Californio Voices available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the early 1870s, Hubert H. Bancroft and his assistants set out to record the memoirs of early Californios, one of them being eighty-three-year-old Don Jose Maria Amador, a former Forty-Niner during the California Gold Rush and soldado de cuera at the Presidio of San Francisco. Amador tells of reconnoitering expeditions into the interior of California, where he encountered local indigenous populations. He speaks of political events of Mexican California and the widespread confiscation of the Californios' goods, livestock, and properties when the United States took control. A friend from Mission Santa Cruz, Lorenzo Asisara, also describes the harsh life and mistreatment the Indians faced from the priests. Both the Amador and Asisara narratives were used as sources in Bancroft's writing but never published themselves. Gregorio Mora-Torres has now rescued them from obscurity and presents their voices in English translation (with annotations) and in the original Spanish on facing pages. This bilingual edition will be of great interest to historians of the West, California, and Mexican American studies.
