Smeltertown : making and remembering a Southwest border community

Smeltertown : making and remembering a Southwest border community / Monica Perales.

Nestled on the banks of the Rio Grande, at the heart of a railroad, mining, and smelting empire, Smeltertown was home to generations of ethnic Mexicans who labored at the American Smelting and Refining Company in El Paso, Texas. Using newspapers, personal archives, photographs, employee records, par...

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Main Author: Perales, Monica
Corporate Author: William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2010.
Subjects:
Mexican Americans > Texas > Smeltertown > History.
Mexican Americans > Texas > Smeltertown > Biography.
Mexican Americans > Texas > Smeltertown > Ethnic identity.
Working class > Texas > Smeltertown > History.
Smelting > Social aspects > Texas > Smeltertown > History.
Community life > Texas > Smeltertown > History.
Collective memory > Texas > Smeltertown.
Company towns > Mexican-American Border Region > Case studies.
HISTORY > State & Local > General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Labor & Industrial Relations.
Collective memory
Community life
Company towns
Mexican Americans
Mexican Americans > Ethnic identity
Working class
Smeltertown (Tex.) > History.
Smeltertown (Tex.) > Biography.
North America > Mexican-American Border Region
Texas > Smeltertown
Biographies
Case studies
History
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