{"product_id":"the-medicine-of-memory-alejandro-murgua-9780292752672","title":"The Medicine of Memory: A Mexica Clan in California","description":"\u003cp\u003e \"People who live in California deny the past,\" asserts Alejandro Murgu?. In a state where \"what matters is keeping up with the current trends, fads, or latest computer gizmo,\" no one has \"the time, energy, or desire to reflect on what happened last week, much less what happened ten years ago, or a hundred.\" From this oblivion of memory, he continues, comes a false sense of history, a deluded belief that the way things are now is the way they have always been. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e In this work of creative nonfiction, Murgu? draws on memories--his own and his family's reaching back to the eighteenth century--to (re)construct the forgotten Chicano-indigenous history of California. He tells the story through significant moments in California history, including the birth of the mestizo in Mexico, destruction of Indian lifeways under the mission system, violence toward Mexicanos during the Gold Rush, Chicano farm life in the early twentieth century, the Chicano Movement of the 1960s, Chicano-Latino activism in San Francisco in the 1970s, and the current rebirth of Chicano-Indio culture. Rejecting the notion that history is always written by the victors, and refusing to be one of the vanquished, he declares, \"This is my California history, my memories, richly subjective and atavistic.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Alejandro Murgu?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0292752679\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780292752672\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Texas Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/01\/2002\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.91lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.52h x 6.76w x 0.63d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/15\/2002 pg. 91","brand":"Alejandro Murgu?","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43981532889343,"sku":"9780292752672","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_c80b5b0c-a20d-4da7-864e-a83f803bf31b.jpg?v=1683256133","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-medicine-of-memory-alejandro-murgua-9780292752672","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}