Songs My Mother Sang to Me: An Oral History of Mexican American Women by Martin, Patricia Preciado

Songs My Mother Sang to Me: An Oral History of Mexican American Women (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780816513291)

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Songs My Mother Sang to Me: An Oral History of Mexican American Women by Martin, Patricia Preciado

Songs My Mother Sang to Me: An Oral History of Mexican American Women

$22.95
Songs My Mother Sang to Me: An Oral History of Mexican American Women by Martin, Patricia Preciado

Songs My Mother Sang to Me: An Oral History of Mexican American Women

$22.95
Format: Paperback
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Motivated by a love of her Mexican American heritage, Patricia Preciado Martin set out to document the lives and memories of the women of her mother's and grandmother's eras; for while the role of women in Southwest has begun to be chronicled, that of Hispanic women largely remains obscure. In Songs My Mother Sang to Me, she has preserved the oral histories of many of these women before they have been lost or forgotten.

Martin's quest took her to ranches, mining towns, and cities throughout southern Arizona, for she sought to document as varied an experience of the contributions of Mexican American women as possible. The interviews covered family history and genealogy, childhood memories, secular and religious traditions, education, work and leisure, environment and living conditions, rites of passage, and personal values. Each of the ten oral histories reflects not only the spontaneity of the interview and personality of each individual, but also the friendship that grew between Martin and her subjects.

Songs My Mother Sang to Me collects voices not often heard and brings to print accounts of social change never previously recorded. These women document more than the details of their own lives; in relating the histories of their ancestors and communities, they add to our knowledge of the culture and contributions of Mexican American people in the Southwest.

Author: Patricia Preciado Martin
ISBN-10: 0816513295
ISBN-13: 9780816513291
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Language: English
Published: 07/01/1992
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.83lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.57w x 0.79d
By Patricia Preciado Martin
By Patricia Preciado Martin
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Patricia Preciado Martin is a native Arizonan and a lifelong Tucsonan. She is an honors graduate of the University of Arizona. She has been active in many facets of the Mexican American community of Tucson and for ten years has devoted her time to writing, the collection of oral history, and the development of the Mexican Heritage project at the Arizona Historical Society.

Her first book, The Bellringer of San Agust?, is a bilingual children's book published for the International Year of the Child. Her first collection of oral history was Images and Conversations: Mexican Americans Recall a Southwestern Past, which won the Virginia McCormick Scully award for the best book of history by a Native American or Chicana. She has also written a book of short stories, Days of Plenty, Days of Want.

The author and her husband, Jim, whom she met while serving in the Peace Corps, have two college-age children. Although the author still lives in Tucson, she says, "I have left my heart in Aravaipa Canyon."

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