Receive Our Memories - The Letters of Luz Moreno, 1950-1952

Receive Our Memories presents and contextualizes the translated letters of Luz Moreno, an ex-sharecropper in a Mexican town, to his daughter, Francisca Moreno Rivera, after she married and left her family to work in the canneries of Stockton, California. Offering a personal look at the everyday lives of the marginalized people impacted by US-Mexico immigration, the correspondence reflects on politics, culture, religion, and aging. Richly illustrated with
original drawings, this quiet yet powerful family story through letters sheds light on a world rarely seen.

About the author

José Orozco is Associate Professor of History at Whittier College.

Summary

Receive Our Memories consists of a rare set of correspondence from a poor, uneducated Mexican in the mid-20th century to his daughter who moves to the United States, putting a human face on the experience of both the immigrant and the family left behind, as well as the histories of both countries.

Product details

• Authors: Jose Orozco, José Orozco
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.02.2017
• EAN: 9780199340422
• ISBN: 978-0-19-934042-2
• No. of pages: 288
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; USA, Mexico, Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, Diaries, letters & journals, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Diaries & Journals, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Letters, HISTORY / Latin America / Mexico, Migration, immigration & emigration, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, United States of America, USA, Migration, immigration and emigration, c 1950 to c 1959, History of the Americas, Diaries, letters and journals, C 1945 To C 1960, Relating to migrant groups / diaspora communities or peoples