1990s Book, Marilyn P. Davis's Mexican Voices/American Dreams - 1 Piece

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Title: Mexican Voices/American Dreams: An Oral History of Mexican Immigration to the United States.
Author: Marilyn P. Davis.
Publisher: Henry … Read more Title: Mexican Voices/American Dreams: An Oral History of Mexican Immigration to the United States.
Author: Marilyn P. Davis.
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company.
Origin: New York, NY, USA.
Publication date: 1990.
Edition: First edition/first printing.

Description: 446 p. 8vo. Signed/Inscribed at dedication page. Publisher's 1/4 brown cloth hardcover, black stamped title on spine cover, tan paper covered boards, matte color illustrated dust jacket.

Measures: 1.5 W x 6.25 D x 9.25 H inches.

Provenance: Audrey M. Berger (see "Acknowledgments", credited as a reader of author's manuscript, "lent ... thoughtful criticism, spurred me on."

About the work and author: The story of Mexican immigration told from a new perspective, in the words of the men and women who lived it. Through their voices, we gain a fresh and truer understanding of this major aspect of American/Mexican relations.

Marilyn Davis, a student of cultural anthropology and a magna cum laude graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, went to live in a small pueblo of western Mexico seventeen years ago with her two young sons. As she became accepted in the closed society, the personal warmth of the people and their rich traditions held her fast. She returned year after year and over time has become godmother to twenty-five children, comadre to their parents, and a teacher of seventh, eighth, and ninth grades in the village school. These relationships provided her with a vast network of people whose story begins at the very roots of the migration from Mexico.

The author lives with her husband in California and Mexico, where she is completing a major study of a traditional people moving into the twentieth century. See less