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Caminos: Memoirs from the Center for Mexican American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin

Caminos: Memoirs from the Center for Mexican American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin

Arocha, Zita

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Biographies GeneralLatino Studies

ISBN10: 1477333878
ISBN13: 9781477333877
Publisher: Ctr for Mex American Studies Ut-Austin
Published: Apr 7 2026
Pages: 148
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.48 Width: 4.97 Depth: 7.96
Language: English

Fourteen writers reflect on the complexities of Mexican American identity in hyphenated America.

At a time when memoir has become an increasingly popular form of self-expression, fourteen writers from diverse backgrounds engaged with one another in a series of writing workshops sponsored by the Center for Mexican American Studies at UT Austin to reflect on their life journeys. They wrestle with issues that shaped them in provocative, evocative, and sometimes humorous short essays. The writers include a lawyer, a civil rights activist, actors, journalists, and professors who write of belonging, national and sexual identity, coping with illness and loss, career challenges, and life-altering events familiar to us all. The contributors write poignantly about losing a parent at an early age; growing up in segregated communities; bravely confronting serious health problems; living in a household with a mentally disturbed family member; the complexity of being American as well as Mexican; and the professional challenges facing all hyphenated Americans, many of whom are often the first person of color in their workplaces.

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