Smeltertown
Subtitle: making and remembering a Southwest border community
By: Monica Perales.
Contributors: William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies.
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Chapel Hill, NC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 333
ISBN-13: 9780807834114; 9780807871461
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
Genres: Biography; Case studies
Description: 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.
Notes: "Published in association with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University."

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: pt. 1. Making places; title: Making a border city; title: Creating Smeltertown; title: pt. 2. Making identities; title: We're just smelter people; title: We were one hundred percent Mexican; title: She was very American; title: pt. 3. Remembering Smeltertown; title: The demise of Smeltertown; title: Epilogue: Finding Smeltertown.