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Smeltertown : making and remembering a Southwest border community /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Perales, Monica
Corporate Author: William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2010]
Subjects:
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.
Smeltertown (Tex.) > History.
Smeltertown (Tex.) > Biography.
Company towns > Mexican-American Border Region > Case studies.
Table of 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.