Beach Mexican
eBook - ePub

Beach Mexican

Assimilation & Identity in Redondo Beach

  1. 128 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Beach Mexican

Assimilation & Identity in Redondo Beach

About this book

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 trucks and 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 City of Redondo Beach for writing the Mexican American history of the city. "Beach Mexican" proves the journey wasn't easy.

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Information

Publisher
The History Press
Year
2013
Print ISBN
9781609496616
eBook ISBN
9781614239840
Topic
History
Subtopic
North American History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Acknowledgements
  8. Introduction
  9. 1. Redondo Beach in the 1950s
  10. 2. I Enter the World with the Help of Altagracia
  11. 3. The Moreno Family and the Mexican 500
  12. 4. My First Encounter with Assimilation: Beryl Heights Elementary School
  13. 5. Las Piscas (The Pickings): My Life as a Migrant Farmworker
  14. 6. Beginning to Feel Assimilated: Hillcrest Junior High School
  15. 7. Navigating the Assimilation Maze: Redondo Union High School
  16. 8. Collegeā€”First in My Family!
  17. 9. Life after College: Finding Love, Fatherhood and a Masterā€™s Degree and Becoming an Author
  18. Epilogue
  19. Bibliography
  20. About the Author