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Beach Mexican : assimilation & identity in Redondo Beach / Alex Moreno Areyan.
- Title
- Beach Mexican : assimilation & identity in Redondo Beach / Alex Moreno Areyan.
- Author
- Areyan, Alex Moreno.
- Publication
- Charleston : The History Press, 2013.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | F869.R33 A738 2013 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- 119 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.
- Summary
- "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"--
- "The Latino author's autobiographic story of assimilation in Redondo Beach, California, during the late 1940s and 1950s"--
- Series Statement
- American heritage
- Uniform Title
- American heritage (Charleston, S.C.)
- Subjects
- Mexican Americans > Cultural assimilation
- Redondo Beach (Calif.) > Biography
- Ethnic relations
- California > Redondo Beach
- Mexican Americans > California > Redondo Beach > Ethnic identity
- Mexican Americans > Cultural assimilation > California > Redondo Beach
- Mexican Americans > Ethnic identity
- Biographies
- Areyan, Alex Moreno
- Mexican Americans > California > Redondo Beach > Biography
- Redondo Beach (Calif.) > Ethnic relations
- Genre/Form
- Biographies.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Contents
- 1. Redondo beach in the 1950s -- 2. I enter the world with the help of Altagracia -- 3. The Moreno family and Mexican 500 -- 4. My first encounter with assimilation : Beryl Heights Elementary School -- 5. La Piscas (the pickings) : my life as a migrant farmworker -- 6. Beginning to feel assimilated : Hillcrest Junior High School -- 7. Navigating the assimilation maze : Redondo Union High School -- 8. College : first in my family! -- 9. Life after college : finding love, fatherhood and a master's degree and becoming an author.
- ISBN
- 9781609496616
- 1609496612
- LCCN
- 2013026780
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library