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Migrant Daughter: Coming of Age as a Mexican American Woman
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Migrant Daughter: Coming of Age as a Mexican American Woman Paperback - 2000

by Tywoniak, Frances Esquibel Esquibel,Garc�a, Mario T

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  • Title Migrant Daughter: Coming of Age as a Mexican American Woman
  • Author Tywoniak, Frances Esquibel Esquibel,Garc�a, Mario T
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Printing
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 270
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of California Press, Ewing, New Jersey, U.S.A.
  • Date 1/17/2000 12:00:01 A
  • Bookseller's Inventory # mon0001135525
  • ISBN 9780520219151
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
    • Cultural Region: Southwest U.S.
    • Cultural Region: Western U.S.
    • Cultural Region: West Coast
    • Ethnic Orientation: Chicano
    • Ethnic Orientation: Hispanic
    • Geographic Orientation: California
    • Geographic Orientation: New Mexico
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine

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From the rear cover

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 fifties, 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. 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.

In addition to the fascinating details of everyday life the narrative provides, Mario Garcia's introduction contextualizes the 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 means of 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 among many cultural worlds, a life story that at times parallels, and at times diverges from, the experiences of thousands of other, unnamed women.

About the author

Frances Esquibel Tywoniak is a retired teacher and administrator in the San Francisco School District. Mario T. Garca is Professor of History and Chicano Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and the author of Memories of Chicano History: The Life and Narrative of Bert Corona (California, 1994) and editor of Ruben Salazar's Border Correspondent: Selected Writings, 1955-1970 (California, 1995).

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