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Author Adams, David Wallace, author.

Title Three roads to Magdalena : coming of age in a Southwest borderland, 1890-1990 / David Wallace Adams
Published Lawrence, Kansas : University Press of Kansas, [2016]
©2016

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Contents Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Introduction; Part I. Cultures and Their Scripts; 1. Family and Religion; 2. Work and Play; 3. Pleasures and Transitions; Part II. Boundaries and Border Crossings; 4. Points of Contact; 5. Anglos and Hispanics at School; 6. The Alamo Navajos at School; Part III. Pasts and Promises; 7. Together and Apart; 8. Legacies and Departures; Afterword; Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index; Back Cover
Summary "Someday," Candelaria Garcia said to the author, "you will get all the stories." It was a tall order, in Magdalena, New Mexico, a once booming frontier town where Navajo, Anglo, and Hispanic people have lived in shifting, sometimes separate, sometimes overlapping worlds for well over a hundred years. But these were the stories, and this was the world, that David Wallace Adams set out to map, in a work that would capture the intimate, complex history of growing up in a Southwest borderland. At the intersection of memory, myth, and history, his book asks what it was like to be a child in a land
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 401-413) and index
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Subject Cultural pluralism -- New Mexico -- Magdalena -- History
Hispanic Americans -- New Mexico -- Magdalena -- Social life and customs
White people -- New Mexico -- Magdalena -- Social life and customs
Navajo Indians -- New Mexico -- Magdalena -- Social life and customs
School children -- New Mexico -- Magdalena -- History
Coming of age -- New Mexico -- Magdalena -- History
Intercultural communication -- New Mexico -- Magdalena -- History
Interviews -- New Mexico -- Magdalena
Magdalena (N.M.) -- Ethnic relations -- History
Magdalena (N.M.) -- Biography
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- Southwest (AZ, NM, OK, TX)
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Children's Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- Hispanic American Studies.
Coming of age
Cultural pluralism
Hispanic Americans -- Social life and customs
Intercultural communication
Interviews
Navajo Indians -- Social life and customs
School children
White people -- Social life and customs
New Mexico -- Magdalena
Genre/Form Biographies
History
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2016000655
ISBN 0700622551
9780700622559
Other Titles 3 roads to Magdalena