The mines at Morenci, Arizona, have gone down in history and legend as the site for bloody strife between an overly exploitive management and immigrant workers without the basic citizen protection. Now, a native daughter of that mining town has created lucid, ardent stories about those families and the mining company which financially supported yet oppressed the culture of their homes, school, church and work.
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The mines at Morenci, Arizona, have gone down in history and legend as the site for bloody strife between an overly exploitive management and immigrant workers without the basic citizen protection. Now, a native daughter of that mining town has created lucid, ardent stories about those families and the mining company which financially supported yet oppressed the culture of their homes, school, church and work.
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Fine. Signed by author. inscribed by the author. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 188 p. Contains: Illustrations, black & white. Audience: General/trade. Suffer Smoke, a bittersweet collection of short stories, is centered on the copper mining town of Morenci Arizona. A company town, Morenci was home to generations of Mexican Americans. In the late sixties, the corporation that owned everything in sight but its employees; souls saw fit to raze the town so that the open pit mine could be expanded. Elena Dà az Björkquist, a native daughter of the original Morenci, has written lucid, ardent stories about its Mexican American families and the mining company that gave them jobs and yet oppressed them. She gives voice to the characters beneath the toil, illuminating the complexity of their yearnings and frustrations and pays tribute to the indomitable spirit of a people in their battle for equality and dignity.
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Very Good. 8.4 X 5.5 X 0.6 inches VERY GOOD CONDITION nice copy. PAPERBACK, clean, solid, bright; black titles with grey smokestack on paper cover art..; 188 pages; The mine at Morenci, Arizona, has gone down in history as the site for bloody strife between exploitive management and Mexican-American workers. Recruited from Mexico, the original miners preceded successive generations born and raised in Morenci to work in the mine. The spotted history of the town subsequently became the basis for Mexican-American legend.
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Fine. First edition. Fine in glossy pictorial wrappers. Advance Review Copy with publisher's slip laid in. A collection of short stories about Morenci, a copper mining town in southeastern Arizona.
