Smeltertown : making and remembering a Southwest border community

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Title:

Smeltertown : making and remembering a Southwest border community

Author:

Perales, Monica.

Personal Author:

Perales, Monica.

Publication Information:

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2010]

Physical Description:

xiv, 333 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

General Note:

"Published in association with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University."

Language:

English

Contents:

pt. 1. Making places -- Making a border city -- Creating Smeltertown -- pt. 2. Making identities -- We're just smelter people -- We were one hundred percent Mexican -- She was very American -- pt. 3. Remembering Smeltertown -- The demise of Smeltertown -- Epilogue: Finding Smeltertown.

Subject Term:

Mexican Americans -- Texas -- Smeltertown -- History.

Mexican Americans -- Texas -- Smeltertown -- Biography.

Mexican Americans -- Texas -- Smeltertown -- Ethnic identity.

Working class -- Texas -- Smeltertown -- History.

Smelting -- Social aspects -- Texas -- Smeltertown -- History.

Community life -- Texas -- Smeltertown -- History.

Collective memory -- Texas -- Smeltertown.

Company towns -- Mexican-American Border Region -- Case studies.

Geographic Term:

Smeltertown (Tex.) -- History.

Smeltertown (Tex.) -- Biography.