Camille’s Reviews > Smeltertown: Making and Remembering a Southwest Border Community > Status Update
Camille
is on page 92 of 352
Part I: Perales challenges us to see Smeltertown as an entity existing well beyond the boundaries of company property and company-sanctioned enterprise. Through local enterprise, community schools preserving Mexican culture, and participation in the Catholic church, Esmeltianos created centers of identity and spheres of agency within the confines of rather bleak living conditions consider: limitations of oral history
— Sep 25, 2012 08:19PM
Like flag
Camille’s Previous Updates
Camille
is on page 185 of 352
contested definitions of mexicanidad. the relationship between religion and nationalism. mexicanidad as an identity shaped by experience over origin, especially in the context of negotiating the borderlands experience...
— Oct 15, 2012 12:55AM
Camille
is on page 148 of 352
Consistent disparity between Mexican and Anglo workers' wages, further reinforced by cultural norms that boxed out Mexican workers from achieving foreman positions and entering certain skilled jobs (despite having the education). AND YET - pride and cultural heritage in being "smeltermen". contrast esp. with more transient workforce of the border city. consider: how was masculine identity intertwined with work?
— Oct 07, 2012 11:37PM
