Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : entering the barrio
  • La Bajura : the barrio setting
  • Dallas, Texas : the city as context
  • Growing up and growing old : some notes on the life cycle
  • Crossing the bridge : institutions linking La Bajura to Dallas
  • Varying values : adaptation and change in the barrio
  • Challenge and response : interactions with the urban ecosystem
  • Epilogue : going home
  • Appendix A.A review of the literature and some theoretical concerns
  • Appendix B. The formal questionnaire.