Preliminaries -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction by Mario T. GarcŁa -- 1. My Roots in New Mexico -- 2. Moving on to a New Life in California -- 3. Migrant Souls -- 4. Discovering the Limits of the Barrio in Junior High -- 5. Joining the High School Track to Success -- 6. Scholarship Girl -- 7. Off to College -- 8. Settling into the Berkeley Ambiance -- 9. New Vistas and New Connections -- Postscript
Summary
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. Garcia, is the powerful and moving testimonio of a young Mexican American woman's struggle to rise out of poverty
