Title: Smeltertown : making and remembering a Southwest border community /
Authors: Perales, Monica.; William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press,
Year: 2010
Subjects: Mexican Americans Texas Smeltertown History.; Mexican Americans Texas Smeltertown Biography.; Mexican Americans Texas Smeltertown Ethnic identity.; Working class Texas Smeltertown History.; Smelting Social aspects Texas Smeltertown History.; Community life Texas Smeltertown History.; Collective memory Texas Smeltertown.; Company towns Mexican-American Border Region Case studies.; Smeltertown (Tex.) History.; Smeltertown (Tex.) Biography.
Abstract: Traces the history of Smeltertown, Texas, a city located on the banks of the Rio Grande that was home to generations of ethnic Mexicans who worked at the American Smelting and Refining Company in El Paso, Texas, with information from newspapers, personal archives, photographs, employee records, parish newsletters, and interviews.
Contents: pt. 1. Making places -- Making a border city -- Creating Smeltertown -- pt. 2. Making identities -- We're just smelter people -- We were one hundred percent Mexican -- She was very American -- pt. 3. Remembering Smeltertown -- The demise of Smeltertown -- Epilogue: Finding Smeltertown.