In this innovative ethnography, anthropologist James Taggart collaborates with Joe Taylor to explore how Alex and the Hobo sprang from Taylor's life experiences and how it presents an insider's view of Mexicano culture and its constructions of manhood. They frame the story (included in its entirety) with chapters that discuss how it encapsulates notions that Taylor learned from the Chicano movement, the farmworkers' union, his community, his father, his mother and his religion. Taggart gives the ethnography a solid theoretical underpinning by discussing how the story and Taylor's account of how he created it represent an act of resistance to the class system that Taylor perceives as destroying his native culture.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of Texas Press
ISBN-13
9780292781801
eBay Product ID (ePID)
94952696
Product Key Features
Author
James M. Taggart, Jose Inez Taylor
Publication Name
Alex and the Hobo: a Chicano Life and Story
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Social Sciences
Publication Year
2003
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
222 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
216mm
Item Width
140mm
Item Weight
408g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
James M. Taggart, Jose Inez Taylor
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
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