Beach Mexican
Subtitle: assimilation & identity in Redondo Beach
By: Alex Moreno Areyan
Series: American heritage
Publisher: The History Press
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 119
ISBN-13: 9781609496616
Subjects: Cultural assimilation; Mexican Americans; Ethnic identity; Ethnic relations; Biography
Description: "Alex Moreno Areyan's odyssey of growing up Latino in white upper-middle-class Redondo Beach in the 1950s presents a story of assimilation different from that experienced by Mexican Americans in larger barrios. His annual " white lie" to classmates was that his father got a job up north and the family was moving. They moved, all right--in a 1941 Plymouth with the harvest. In Marysville, Meridian and Mendota, they lived in tents and cars, under trucksand in corrugated tin hovels while picking cotton, tomatoes, peaches, walnuts and plums. The kid once threatened with permanent expulsion from Redondo Union High for speaking Spanish on campus eventually received a plaque from the Cityof Redondo Beach for writing the Mexican American history of the city. Beach Mexican proves the journey wasn't easy"--

"The Latino author's autobiographic story of assimilation in Redondo Beach, California, during the late 1940s and 1950s"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.