Smeltertown : Making and Remembering a Southwest Border Community /

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Nestled on the banks of the Rio Grande, at the heart of a railroad, mining, and smelting empire, Smeltertown was home to generations of ethnic Mexicans who labored at the American Smelting and Refining Company in El Paso, Texas. Using newspapers, personal archives, photographs, employee records, par...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Perales, Monica
Corporate Author: William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2010.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Working class.
Mexican Americans > Ethnic identity.
Mexican Americans.
Company towns.
Community life.
Collective memory.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Labor & Industrial Relations.
HISTORY > State & Local > General.
Company towns > Mexican-American Border Region > Case studies.
Collective memory > Texas > Smeltertown.
Community life > Texas > Smeltertown > History.
Smelting > Social aspects > Texas > Smeltertown > History.
Working class > Texas > Smeltertown > History.
Mexican Americans > Texas > Smeltertown > Ethnic identity.
Mexican Americans > Texas > Smeltertown > Biography.
Mexican Americans > Texas > Smeltertown > History.
Texas > Smeltertown.
North America > Mexican-American Border Region.
Smeltertown (Tex.) > Biography.
Smeltertown (Tex.) > History.
History.
Case studies.
Biographies.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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.

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