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Receive Our Memories: The Letters of Luz Moreno, 1950-1952
Jose Orozco
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Description for Receive Our Memories: The Letters of Luz Moreno, 1950-1952
Paperback. Receive Our Memories consists of a rare set of correspondence from a poor, uneducated Mexican in the mid-20th century to his daughter who moves to the United States, putting a human face on the experience of both the immigrant and the family left behind, as well as the histories of both countries. Num Pages: 288 pages, 34 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KLCM; 3JJPG; BJ; HBJK; HBLW3; JFFN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 167 x 20. Weight in Grams: 480.
Receive our Memories is a rare study of an epistolary relationship for individuals whose migration from Mexico has been looked at en masse, but not from such a personal and human angle. The heart of the book consists of eighty translated and edited versions of letters from Luz Moreno, a poor, uneducated Mexican sharecropper, to his daughter, a recent emigre to California, in the 1950s. These are contextualized and framed in light of immigration and labor history, the histories of Mexico and the United States in this period, and family history. Although Moreno's letters ... Read more
Receive our Memories is a rare study of an epistolary relationship for individuals whose migration from Mexico has been looked at en masse, but not from such a personal and human angle. The heart of the book consists of eighty translated and edited versions of letters from Luz Moreno, a poor, uneducated Mexican sharecropper, to his daughter, a recent emigre to California, in the 1950s. These are contextualized and framed in light of immigration and labor history, the histories of Mexico and the United States in this period, and family history. Although Moreno's letters ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
479g
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780199340439
SKU
V9780199340439
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Ref
99-25
About Jose Orozco
Jose Orozco is Associate Professor of History at Whittier College.
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