Bibliograph

Mexican voices/American dreams, an oral history of Mexican immigration to the United States, Marilyn P. Davis

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Mexican voices/American dreams, an oral history of Mexican immigration to the United States, Marilyn P. Davis

Language

eng

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Mexican voices/American dreams

Oclc number

21150684

Responsibility statement

Marilyn P. Davis

Sub title

an oral history of Mexican immigration to the United States

Summary

Oral histories of Mexican American immigrants, "their families, friends, employers, and descendants."

Table Of Contents

Part I. Push-pull -- Ballad of the immigrant: the long history of Mexican migration -- I will buy you the moon: the reasons for going -- Two dollars an hour: the employees -- Part II. Passage -- To cross is to die a little: crossing the border -- The white man and the chicken keeper win: El Coyote -- How they have suffered for me: those they left behind -- Part III. El Norte -- Breathless: dreams versus reality -- Those who come to immigrate: life in the United States -- Up with the raza: the best and the brightest -- Part IV. The future -- When you sing there are no borders: the artists -- Those they call chicano: the children, part I ; the children's children, part II -- El Corrido Nuevo: a new verse

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