essay
Mexican American women as innovators
Twice a minority : Mexican American women • St. Louis, Missouri • Published In 1980 • Pages: 109-126
By: Whiteford, Linda M..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a study of Mexican American women who are innovators of social change in a small region in Texas located on the United States - Mexican border. This region, which is undergoing rapid and sometimes dramatic socioeconomic change, is called by Whiteford, Frontera (a pseudonym), encompassing a town of some 6,000 inhabitants plus an area of approximately 10 mile radius surrounding the town. In this work the author describes the physical setting and population of Frontera, external factors that have changed local conditions, and, in particular, those women who have responded to these changes by becoming innovators in terms of patterns of behavior, expectations, and goals.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Internal migration
- Sociocultural trends
- Labor supply and employment
- Gender status
- Gender roles and issues
- 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
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Social Scientist
- 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
- John Beierle ; 2001
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- Pre 1960s - 1970s
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Frontera (a pseudonym), Texas, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Linda Whiteford
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 126)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 80011177
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Mexican Americans