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Migrant Daughter - Coming of Age as a Mexican American Woman (Paperback)
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Migrant Daughter - Coming of Age as a Mexican American Woman (Paperback)
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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. "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. Garcia'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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