Songs My Mother Sang to Me - 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 Songs My Mother Sang to Me write by Patricia Preciado Martin. This book was released on 1992-07. Songs My Mother Sang to Me available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Motivated by a love of her Mexican American heritage, Patricia Preciado Martin set out to document the lives and memories of the women of her mother's and grandmother's eras; for while the role of women in Southwest has begun to be chronicled, that of Hispanic women largely remains obscure. In Songs My Mother Sang to Me, she has preserved the oral histories of many of these women before they have been lost or forgotten. Martin's quest took her to ranches, mining towns, and cities throughout southern Arizona, for she sought to document as varied an experience of the contributions of Mexican American women as possible. The interviews covered family history and genealogy, childhood memories, secular and religious traditions, education, work and leisure, environment and living conditions, rites of passage, and personal values. Each of the ten oral histories reflects not only the spontaneity of the interview and personality of each individual, but also the friendship that grew between Martin and her subjects. Songs My Mother Sang to Me collects voices not often heard and brings to print accounts of social change never previously recorded. These women document more than the details of their own lives; in relating the histories of their ancestors and communities, they add to our knowledge of the culture and contributions of Mexican American people in the Southwest.
The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction
The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction - 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 Great Arizona Orphan Abduction write by Linda Gordon. This book was released on 2011-02-09. The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In 1904, New York nuns brought forty Irish orphans to a remote Arizona mining camp, to be placed with Catholic families. The Catholic families were Mexican, as was the majority of the population. Soon the town's Anglos, furious at this "interracial" transgression, formed a vigilante squad that kidnapped the children and nearly lynched the nuns and the local priest. The Catholic Church sued to get its wards back, but all the courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court, ruled in favor of the vigilantes. The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction tells this disturbing and dramatic tale to illuminate the creation of racial boundaries along the Mexican border. Clifton/Morenci, Arizona, was a "wild West" boomtown, where the mines and smelters pulled in thousands of Mexican immigrant workers. Racial walls hardened as the mines became big business and whiteness became a marker of superiority. These already volatile race and class relations produced passions that erupted in the "orphan incident." To the Anglos of Clifton/Morenci, placing a white child with a Mexican family was tantamount to child abuse, and they saw their kidnapping as a rescue. Women initiated both sides of this confrontation. Mexican women agreed to take in these orphans, both serving their church and asserting a maternal prerogative; Anglo women believed they had to "save" the orphans, and they organized a vigilante squad to do it. In retelling this nearly forgotten piece of American history, Linda Gordon brilliantly recreates and dissects the tangled intersection of family and racial values, in a gripping story that resonates with today's conflicts over the "best interests of the child."
Singing Soldiers
Singing Soldiers - 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 Singing Soldiers write by John Jacob Niles. This book was released on 1927. Singing Soldiers available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
My Mother Is A Baker
My Mother Is A Baker - 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 My Mother Is A Baker write by Jean Feldman. This book was released on 2007-10. My Mother Is A Baker available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Brando: Songs My Mother Taught Me
Brando: Songs My Mother Taught Me - 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 Brando: Songs My Mother Taught Me write by Marlon Brando. This book was released on 2011-01-26. Brando: Songs My Mother Taught Me available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is Marlon Brando’s own story, and his reason for telling it is best revealed in his own words: “I have always considered my life a private affair and the business of no one beyond my family and those I love. Except for moral and political issues that aroused in me a desire to speak out, I have done my utmost throughout my life, for the sake of my children and myself, to remain silent. . . . But now, in my seventieth year, I have decided to tell the story of my life as best I can, so that my children can separate the truth from the myths that others have created about me, as myths are created about everyone swept up in the turbulent and distorting maelstrom of celebrity in our culture.” To date there have been over a dozen books written about Marlon Brando, and almost all of them have been inaccurate, based on hearsay, sensationalist or prurient in tone. Now, at last, fifty years after his first appearance onstage in New York City, the actor has told his life story, with the help of Robert Lindsey. The result is an extraordinary book, at once funny, moving, absorbing, ribald, angry, self-deprecating and completely frank account of the career, both on-screen and off, of the greatest actor of our time. Anyone who has ever enjoyed a Brando film will relish this book. Please note: this edition does not include photos.
