Description: Migrant Daughter : Coming of Age As a Mexican American Woman, Paperback by Tywoniak, Frances Esquibel; García, Mario T., ISBN 0520219155, ISBN-13 9780520219151, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US Taking us from the open spaces of rural New Mexico and the fields of California's Great Central Valley to the intellectual milieu of student life in Berkeley during the 1950s, this memoir, based on an oral history by Mario T. García, is the powerful and moving testimonio of a young Mexican American woman's struggle to rise out of poverty. Migrant Daughter is the coming-of-age story of Frances Esquibel Tywoniak, who was born in Spanish-speaking New Mexico, moved with her family to California during the Depression to attend school and work as a farm laborer, and subsequently won a university scholarship, becoming one of the few Mexican Americans to attend the University of California, Berkeley, at that time. Giving a personal perspective on the conflicts of living in and between cultures, this eloquent story provides a rare glimpse into the life of a young Mexican American woman who achieved her dreams of obtaining a university education. In addition to the many fascinating details of everyday life the narrative provides, Mario T. García's introduction contextualizes the place and importance of Tywoniak's life. Both introduction and narrative illustrate the process by which Tywoniak negotiated her relation to ethnic identity and cultural allegiances, the ways in which she came to find education as a channel for breaking with fieldwork patterns of life, and the effect of migration on family and culture. This deeply personal memoir portrays a courageous Mexican American woman moving between many cultural worlds, a life story that at times parallels, and at times diverges from, the real life experiences of thousands of other, unnamed women.
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Book Title: Migrant Daughter : Coming of Age As a Mexican American Woman
Number of Pages: 267 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Migrant Daughter : Coming of Age As a Mexican American Woman
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Latin America / General
Publication Year: 2000
Item Height: 0.7 in
Item Weight: 14.4 Oz
Type: Textbook
Author: Mario T. García, Frances Esquibel Tywoniak
Subject Area: Social Science, History
Item Length: 9 in
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
