Migrant Daughter : Coming of Age as a Mexican American Woman.

By: Tywoniak, Frances EsquibelContributor(s): García, Mario T | Garcia, Mario TMaterial type: TextTextPublisher: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2000Copyright date: ©2000Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (290 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780520923041Subject(s): Mexican American college students -- California -- Berkeley -- Biography | Mexican American migrant agricultural laborers -- Biography | Mexican American women -- California -- Biography | Mexican American women -- Ethnic identity | Mexican American women -- New Mexico -- Biography | Tywoniak, Frances Esquibel, -- 1931- | University of California, Berkeley -- BiographyGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Migrant Daughter : Coming of Age as a Mexican American WomanDDC classification: 979.4/0046872073 LOC classification: F870.M5 -- T96 2000ebOnline resources: Click to View
Contents:
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. Garc�a, 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. Garc�a'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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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.

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. Garc�a, 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. Garc�a'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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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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