Beach Mexican: Assimilation & Identity in Redondo Beach

by Alex Moreno Areyan

Book Overview

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 trucks...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1609496612
• ISBN13: 9781609496616
• Release Date: July 2013
• Publisher: History Press
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 8.9"