A place at the Nayarit : how a Mexican restaurant nourished a community /

"In 1951, Doña Natalia Barraza opened the Nayarit, a Mexican restaurant in Echo Park, Los Angeles. With A Place at the Nayarit, historian Natalia Molina traces the life's work of her grandmother, remembered by all who knew her as Doña Natalia--a generous, reserved, and extraordinarily ca...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Molina, Natalia (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2022]
Subjects:
Barraza, Natalia, > -1969.
Nayarit (Restaurant : Los Angeles, Calif.)
Restaurants > California > Los Angeles.
Mexican American neighborhoods > California > Los Angeles > Social life and customs.
Mexican Americans > California > Los Angeles.
Immigrants > California > Los Angeles.
Restaurants > Californie > Los Angeles.
Américains d'origine mexicaine > Californie > Los Angeles.
HISTORY / United States / 20th Century
Immigrants.
Mexican Americans.
Restaurants.
Echo Park (Los Angeles, Calif.)
California > Los Angeles.
California > Los Angeles > Echo Park.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : placemaking in a new homeland
  • Finding a place in Echo Park
  • Tasting home
  • the emotional life of immigration
  • Venturing forth
  • Maintaining ties
  • Epilogue : losing places.

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