Migrant Daughter - Coming of Age As a Mexican American Woman

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List of contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction by Mario T. Garda

1. My Roots in New Mexico
2. Moving on to a New Life in California
3· Migrant Souls
4· Discovering the Limits of the Barrio in Junior High
5· Joining the High School Track to Success
6. Scholarship Girl
7· Off to College
8. Settling into the Berkeley Ambiance
9· New Vistas and New Connections

Postscript

Photographs following page

About the author

Frances Esquibel Tywoniak is a retired teacher and administrator in the San Francisco School District. Mario T. García is Professor of History and Chicano Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and the author of Memories of Chicano History: The Life and Narrative of Bert Corona (California, 1994) and editor of Ruben Salazar's Border Correspondent: Selected Writings, 1955-1970 (California, 1995).

Summary

Taking us from the open spaces of rural New Mexico and the fields of California's Great Central Valley to the intellectual milieu of student life in Berkeley during the 1950s, this title presents a testimonio of a young Mexican American woman's struggle to rise out of poverty.

Product details

• Authors: Mario T. Garcaa, Mario T. Garcia, Mario T. García, Frances Esquibel Tywoniak, Frances Esquibel Garcia Tywoniak, Tywoniak Frances Esquibel, Tywoniak/García
• Assisted by: Frances Esquibel Tywoniak (Editor), Mario T. García (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.01.2000
• EAN: 9780520219151
• ISBN: 978-0-520-21915-1
• No. of pages: 267
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, Society & culture: general, HISTORY / Latin America / General, Gender studies, gender groups, Latin America – Mexico, Central America, South America, History of the Americas