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Smeltertown - Making and Remembering a Southwest Border Community (Paperback, New edition)
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Smeltertown - Making and Remembering a Southwest Border Community (Paperback, New edition)
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Company town. Blighted community. Beloved home. Nestled on the
banks of the Rio Grande, at the heart of a railroad, mining, and
smelting empire, Smeltertown--La Esmelda, as its residents called
it--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. Spanning almost a century, Smeltertown traces
the birth, growth, and ultimate demise of a working class community
in the largest U.S. city on the Mexican border and places ethnic
Mexicans at the center of transnational capitalism and the making
of the urban West. Perales shows that Smeltertown was composed of
multiple real and imagined social worlds created by the company,
the church, the schools, and the residents themselves. Within these
dynamic social worlds, residents forged permanence and meaning in
the shadow of the smelter's giant smokestacks. Smeltertown provides
insight into how people and places invent and reinvent themselves
and illuminates a vibrant community grappling with its own sense of
itself and its place in history and collective memory.
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