Mexican Americans in a Dallas Barrio
| dc.contributor.author | Achor, Shirley | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2019-05-15T22:13:43Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2019-05-15T22:13:43Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1978 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10150/632270 | |
| dc.description | This book vividly describes day-to-day barrio life in Dallas. Achor’s portrayal of the residents challenges stereotypes of traditional Mexican American culture and southwestern barrio life. | en_US |
| dc.description.sponsorship | Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, as part of the Humanities Open Book Program funded jointly by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. | en_US |
| dc.description.tableofcontents | Preface to the Fifth Printing -- Preface -- Introduction. Entering the Barrio -- 1. La Bajura: The Barrio Setting -- 2. Dallas, Texas: The City as Context -- 3. Growing Up and Growing Old: Some Notes on the Life Cycle -- 4. Crossing the Bridge: Institutions Linking La Bajura to Dallas -- 5. Varying Values: Adaptation and Change in the Barrio -- 6. Challenge and Response: Interactions With the Urban Ecosystem -- Epilogue. Going Home -- Appendix A. A Review of the Literature and Some Theoretical Concerns -- Appendix B. The Formal Questionnaire -- References -- Index. | en_US |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
| dc.publisher | University of Arizona Press (Tucson, AZ) | en_US |
| dc.relation.url | https://open.uapress.arizona.edu | en_US |
| dc.rights | Copyright © 1978 by The Arizona Board of Regents. The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0), https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/. | en_US |
| dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ | |
| dc.source | University of Arizona Press | en_US |
| dc.subject | Mexican Americans—Texas—Dallas. | en_US |
| dc.subject | Dallas—Social conditions. | en_US |
| dc.subject | Assimilation (Sociology) | en_US |
| dc.title | Mexican Americans in a Dallas Barrio | en_US |
| dc.type | book | en_US |
| dc.type | text | en_US |
| dc.description.collectioninformation | This title from the Open Arizona collection is made available by the University of Arizona Press and University of Arizona Libraries. If you have questions about this title, please contact the UA Press at https://uapress.arizona.edu/contact. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.eisbn | 978-0-8165-3878-2 | |
| refterms.dateFOA | 2019-05-15T22:13:44Z |
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