Book
Mexican Americans in a Dallas barrio
University of Arizona Press • Tucson • Published In 1978 • Pages:
By: Achor, Shirley.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This book offers a vivid portrait of daily life and community in a Mexican American barrio of Dallas. The author is highly sensitive and sympathetic to her subjects; thus her portrayal successfully captures a good deal of the sense of Mexican-American 'lived experience.' Patterns of discrimination against the barrio inhabitants by Anglos and the nature of the barrio community are lucidly described.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Streets and traffic
- Occupational specialization
- Labor supply and employment
- Gender status
- Cultural identity and pride
- Acculturation and culture contact
- Sociocultural trends
- Ethnosociology
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Chicanos
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2002
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Regional, Ethnic and Diaspora Cultures
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- M. A. Marcus ; 1986
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1970-1972
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- August 1970-December 1972
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- barrio of 'La Bajura,' Dallas, Texas, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Shirley Achor
- A revision of the author's thesis, Southern Methodist University, 1974
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-195) and index
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 77022434
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Mexican Americans