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Women of the Depression - Caste and Culture in San Antonio, 1929-39 (Paperback, New edition)
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Women of the Depression - Caste and Culture in San Antonio, 1929-39 (Paperback, New edition)
Series: Texas A.& M.Southwestern Studies
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Even before the Depression, unemployment, low wages, substandard
housing, and poor health plagued many women in what was then one of
America's poorest cities--San Antonio. Divided by tradition,
prejudice, or law into three distinct communities of Mexican
Americans, Anglos, and African Americans, San Antonio women faced
hardships based on their personal economic circumstances as well as
their identification with a particular racial or ethnic group.
Women of the Depression, first published in 1984, presents a unique
study of life in a city whose society more nearly reflected
divisions by the concept of caste rather than class. Caste was
conferred by identification with a particular ethnic or racial
group, and it defined nearly every aspect of women's lives.
Historian Julia Kirk Blackwelder shows that Depression-era San
Antonio, with its majority Mexican American population, its heavy
dependence on tourism and light industry, and its domination by an
Anglo elite, suffered differently as a whole than other American
cities. Loss of migrant agricultural work drove thousands of
Mexican Americans into the barrios on the west side of San Antonio,
and with the intense repatriation fervor of the 1930s, the fear of
deportation inhibited many Mexican Americans from seeking public or
private aid. The author combines excerpts from personal letters,
diaries, and interviews with government statistics to present a
collective view of discrimination and culture and the strength of
both in the face of crisis.
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