Beach Mexican : assimilation & identity in Redondo Beach /

Beach Mexican : assimilation & identity in Redondo Beach /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Areyan, Alex Moreno.
Imprint:	Charleston : The History Press, 2013.
Description:	119 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	American heritage American heritage (Charleston, S.C.)
Subject:	Areyan, Alex Moreno. Mexican Americans -- Cultural assimilation -- California -- Redondo Beach. Mexican Americans -- California -- Redondo Beach -- Ethnic identity. Mexican Americans -- California -- Redondo Beach -- Biography. Ethnic relations. Mexican Americans. Mexican Americans -- Cultural assimilation. Mexican Americans -- Ethnic identity. Redondo Beach (Calif.) -- Ethnic relations. Redondo Beach (Calif.) -- Biography. California -- Redondo Beach. Biography.
Format:	E-Resource Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9346196

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ISBN:	9781609496616 (pbk.) 1609496612 (pbk.)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references.
Summary:	"Alex Moreno Areyan's odyssey of growing up Latino in white upper-middle-class Redondo Beach in the 1950s presents a story of assimilation different from that experienced by Mexican Americans in larger barrios. His annual " white lie" to classmates was that his father got a job up north and the family was moving. They moved, all right--in a 1941 Plymouth with the harvest. In Marysville, Meridian and Mendota, they lived in tents and cars, under trucksand in corrugated tin hovels while picking cotton, tomatoes, peaches, walnuts and plums. The kid once threatened with permanent expulsion from Redondo Union High for speaking Spanish on campus eventually received a plaque from the Cityof Redondo Beach for writing the Mexican American history of the city. Beach Mexican proves the journey wasn't easy"-- "The Latino author's autobiographic story of assimilation in Redondo Beach, California, during the late 1940s and 1950s"--

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