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Author Adams, David Wallace, author.

Title Three roads to Magdalena : coming of age in a Southwest borderland, 1890-1990 / David Wallace Adams.

Publication Info. Lawrence, Kansas : University Press of Kansas, [2016]

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 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  305.8009789 Ad17t 2016    ---  Available
Description xiii, 437 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Summary "In Three Roads to Magdalena, his long-awaited second book, David Wallace Adams brings together borderlands history with the history of children to tell a story about the realities of life in a multi-cultural space. Focusing on the childhood experiences of three groups--Anglo, Hispanic, and Navajo--Adams examines how class, religion, language, race, and education influenced the creation of distinct identities and racial boundaries in tiny, remote Magdalena, New Mexico, but also provided opportunities for cross-cultural interactions and intimacies. Adams particularly emphasizes the role of education here: school is one of the core features and institutions of a child's life, and in Magdalena it became one of the main arenas for cross-cultural interaction"-- Provided by publisher.
"'Someday, ' Candelaria Garcia said to the author, 'you will get all the stories.' It was a tall order, in Magdalena, New Mexico, a once booming frontier town where Navajo, Anglo, and Hispanic people have lived in shifting, sometimes separate, sometimes overlapping worlds for well over a hundred years. But these were the stories, and this was the world, that David Wallace Adams set out to map, in a work that would capture the intimate, complex history of growing up in a Southwest borderland. At the intersection of memory, myth, and history, his book asks what it was like to be a child in a land of ethnic and cultural boundaries. The answer, as close to 'all the stories' as one might hope to get, captures the diverse, ever-changing experience of a Southwest community defined by cultural borders--and the nature and role of children in defending and crossing those borders. In this book, we listen to the voices of elders who knew Magdalena nearly a century ago, and the voices of a younger generation who negotiated the community's shifting boundaries. Their stories take us to sheep and cattle ranches, Navajo ceremonies, Hispanic fiestas, mining camps, First Communion classes, ranch house dances, Indian boarding school drill fields, high school social activities, and children's rodeos. Here we learn how class, religion, language, and race influenced the creation of distinct identities and ethnic boundaries, but also provided opportunities for cross-cultural interactions and intimacies. And we see the critical importance of education, in both reinforcing differences and opening a shared space for those differences to be experienced and bridged. In this, Adams's work offers a close-up view of the transformation of one multicultural community, but also of the transformation of childhood itself over the course of the twentieth century. A unique blend of oral, social, and childhood history, Three Roads to Magdalena is a rare living document of conflict and accommodation across ethnic boundaries in our ever-evolving multicultural society "-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Part I. Cultures and Their Scripts -- Family and Religion -- Work and Play -- Pleasures and Transitions -- Part II. Boundaries and Border Crossings -- Points of Contact -- Anglos and Hispanics at School -- The Alamo Navajos at School -- Part III. Pasts and Promises -- Together and Apart -- Legacies and Departures -- Afterword.
Subject Magdalena (N.M.) -- Ethnic relations -- History.
Cultural pluralism -- New Mexico -- Magdalena -- History.
Hispanic Americans -- New Mexico -- Magdalena -- Social life and customs.
Whites -- New Mexico -- Magdalena -- Social life and customs.
Navajo Indians -- New Mexico -- Magdalena -- Social life and customs.
School children -- New Mexico -- Magdalena -- History.
Coming of age -- New Mexico -- Magdalena -- History.
Intercultural communication -- New Mexico -- Magdalena -- History.
Magdalena (N.M.) -- Biography.
Interviews -- New Mexico -- Magdalena.
Coming of age. (OCoLC)fst01763769
Cultural pluralism. (OCoLC)fst01715991
Ethnic relations. (OCoLC)fst00916005
Hispanic Americans -- Social life and customs. (OCoLC)fst00957602
Intercultural communication. (OCoLC)fst00976084
Interviews. (OCoLC)fst00977644
Navajo Indians -- Social life and customs. (OCoLC)fst01034848
School children. (OCoLC)fst01107147
Whites -- Social life and customs. (OCoLC)fst01174830
New Mexico -- Magdalena. (OCoLC)fst01234103
Genre/Form Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
ISBN 9780700622542 (hardback)
0700622543 (hardback)

 
    
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