| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 299 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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ACLS Humanities E-Book
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| Contents |
Cover; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; One: Introduction, New Borders and Destinations; Two: "I Give Thanks to God, After That, the United States", Everyday Life In Textitlán; Three: La Casa Vacía, Meanings and Memories in Abandoned Immigrant Houses; Four: In the Shadows and Out, Mexican Kennett Square; Five: Bridging the Community, Nativism, Activism, and the Politics of Belonging; Six: There and Back Again, The Pilgrimage of Return Migration; Seven: The Ambivalent Welcome, Cinco De Mayo and the Performance of Local Identity and Ethnic Relations; Epilogue; Notes; References; Index |
| Summary |
Over the last three decades, migration from Mexico to the United States has moved beyond the borderlands to diverse communities across the country, with the most striking transformations in American suburbs and small towns. This study explores the challenges encountered by Mexican families as they endeavor to find their place in the U.S. by focusing on Kennett Square, a small farming village in Pennsylvania known as the "Mushroom Capital of the World." In a highly readable account based on extensive fieldwork among Mexican migrants and their American neighbors, Debra Lattanzi Shutika explores |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Mexican Americans -- Cultural assimilation -- Pennsylvania -- Kennett Square
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Mexican Americans -- Pennsylvania -- Kennett Square -- Ethnic identity
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Black Studies (Global)
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- African American Studies.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects
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Ethnic relations
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Mexican Americans -- Cultural assimilation
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Mexican Americans -- Ethnic identity
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Regions & Countries - Americas.
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History & Archaeology.
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United States Local History.
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| SUBJECT |
Kennett Square (Pa.) -- Ethnic relations
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Guanajuato (Mexico : State) -- Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects
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| Subject |
Mexico -- Guanajuato (State)
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Pennsylvania -- Kennett Square
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780520950238 |
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0520950232 |
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1283278472 |
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9781283278478 |
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