Beach Mexican: Assimilation & Identity in Redondo Beach (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781609496616)

Alex Moreno Areyan's odyssey of growing up Latino in white upper-middle-class Redondo Beach in the 1950s presents a story of assimilation different from that experienced by Mexican Americans in larger barrios. His annual white lie" to classmates was that his father got a job up north and the family was moving. They moved, all right--in a 1941 Plymouth with the harvest. In Marysville, Meridian and Mendota, they lived in tents and cars, under trucks and in corrugated tin hovels while picking cotton, tomatoes, peaches, walnuts and plums. The kid once threatened with permanent expulsion from Redondo Union High for speaking Spanish on campus eventually received a plaque from the City of Redondo Beach for writing the Mexican American history of the city. "Beach Mexican" proves the journey wasn't easy."

Author: Alex Moreno Areyan
ISBN-10: 1609496612
ISBN-13: 9781609496616
Publisher: History Press
Language: English
Published: 07/23/2013
Pages: 128
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.61lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.50d