María Herrera-Sobek

Northward bound : the Mexican immigrant experience in ballad and song

Preface Acknowledgments Introduction Part One. 1848-1964 One Cowboys and Outlaws Two Working and Traveling on the Railroad Three Revolution and Hard Times Four Of Migrants and Renegades Five Repatriation and Deportation Six The Bracero Program Part Two. After 1964 Seven Songs of Protest Eight Border-Crossing Strategies Nine Racial Tension Ten Poverty, Petroleum, and Amnesty Eleven Love Twelve Acculturation and Assimilation Thirteen Death Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index

Gender and Print Culture: New Perspectives on International Ballad Studies

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Chicano Folk Medicine from Los Angeles, California

This study presents the folk medical beliefs and practices described in the Chicano Heritage Collection of the University of California at Los Angeles. Dr. Roeder explores the role of storytelling, particularly the narration of personal experience stories, in the communication of folk medical traditions and beliefs. She shows how ethnic traditions, individual choice of medical treatment, and Mexican American awareness of both are influenced by the experiences of immigration and of life as a minority, confronted by differing majority beliefs and practices. The 103-page appendix on medicinals is useful independently.