AMERICAN ME

by Beatrice Griffith ‧ RELEASE DATE: N/A

A particularly eloquent presentation of a minority, the Mexican in California, this is expressive in use of indigenous, often ingenuously appealing material, as alternate chapters tell of incidents in the words of the children. Here is the tragedy of the Mexican in American -- ""American me, American inside but Mexican on top"". Here the background on this bybrid group, the zoot suits, the jive, the liquor and the tea, the gang fights and the delinquency which attract attention and condemnation, the social and economic factors which are responsible; the inadequacies of housing, health, prejudice in schools and courts, exploitation of ""cheap labor""; the old people, humble, helpless, confused; the hindrances to integration...A Houghton Mifflin Fellowship book, at all times persuasive, urgent, cogent in its appeal. Don't overlook it.

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Publisher: Houghton, Mifflin

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Kirkus Reviews Issue: June 15, 1948

Categories: NONFICTION