Smeltertown: Making and Remembering a Southwest Border Community by Monica Perales

Smeltertown: Making and Remembering a Southwest Border Community



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Smeltertown: Making and Remembering a Southwest Border Community Monica Perales
Language: English
Page: 350
Format: pdf
ISBN: 080787146X, 9780807871461
Publisher: UNC Press Books

Review

"In addition to telling the story of the birth, life, and demise of a vibrant community, Smeltertown provides valuable insights."
-Humanities Texas

"An exhaustively researched and engaging history of the generations of ethnic Mexicans who lived and died in the community they called "La Esmelda".... A living text of human community."
-Oral History Review

"Perales chronicle[s] the journey of Mexican-Americans and their role in the industrialization and globalization of a small community near El Paso. Her book . . . tells their story where families thrived and business excelled."
-Houston Chronicle

"Smeltertown is an engaging exploration of the intersections of globalization and transnationalism."
-The Journal of American History

"Not just a narrative history . . . but also a look at how the community was created by Anglos and Hispanics, citizens and immigrants, rich and poor. . . . This well-researched and well-documented work would be a good addition for academic libraries, especially collections related to borderlands studies or labor issues."
-Library Journal

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Nestled on the banks of the Rio Grande, at the heart of a railroad, mining, and smelting empire, Smeltertown was home to generations of ethnic Mexicans who labored at the American Smelting and Refining Company in El Paso, Texas. Using newspapers, personal archives, photographs, employee records, parish newsletters, and interviews with former residents, including her own relatives, Monica Perales unearths the history of this forgotten community. Smeltertown provides insight into how people and places invent and reinvent themselves and sheds light on a vibrant community grappling with its own sense of self and its place in history and collective memory.

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