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Beach Mexican
Alex Moreno Areyan
其他書名
Assimilation & Identity in Redondo Beach
出版Arcadia Publishing, 2013-07-23
主題Social Science / Ethnic Studies / American / Hispanic American StudiesPhotography / Subjects & Themes / HistoricalTravel / United States / West / Pacific (AK, CA, HI, OR, WA)History / United States / State & Local / West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)
ISBN16142398439781614239840
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=yad2CQAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋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.