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A Place in El Paso: A Mexican-American Childhood
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This memoir of growing up in El Paso in the 1940s and 1950s creates an entire city: the way a barrio awakens in the early morning sun, the thrill of a rare desert snow, the taste of fruit-flavored raspadas on summer afternoons, the money boys who beg from commuters passing back and forth to Ju???rez, and the mischief of children entertaining themselves in the streets. L???pez-Stafford shows readers El Paso through the eyes of Yoya--short for Gloria--the high-spirited narrator, who is five years old when the book begins.Yoya is a survivor. Her young mother has died, leaving her in the care of her much older father, who tries to provide for his family by selling used clothing. Her brother Carlos, Padre Luna, and a community of children and women assume responsibility for Yoya, but like the inexplicable loss of her mother, unexpected changes separate her from her beloved barrio. The search for su lugar, her place, becomes a search for identity as Gloria seeks to understand her various homes and families.

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title	:	A Place in El Paso : A Mexican-American Childhood
author	:	Lpez-Stafford, Gloria.
publisher	:	University of New Mexico
isbn10 \| asin	:	082631709X
print isbn13	:	9780826317094
ebook isbn13	:	9780585323022
language	:	English
subject	Lpez-Stafford, Gloria,--1937- --Childhood and youth, Mexican Americans--Texas--El Paso--Biography, El Paso (Tex.)--Biography.
publication date	:	1996
lcc	:	F394.E4L67 1996eb
ddc	:	976.4/96
subject	:	Lpez-Stafford, Gloria,--1937- --Childhood and youth, Mexican Americans--Texas--El Paso--Biography, El Paso (Tex.)--Biography.

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A Place in El Paso

A Mexican-American Childhood

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A Place in El Paso

A Mexican-American Childhood

Gloria Lpez-Stafford

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1996 by the University of New Mexico Press
All Rights Reserved.
Second paperbound printing, 1998

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA
Lopez-Stafford, Gloria, 1937
A place in El Paso : a Mexican-American childhood
Gloria Lopez-Stafford. 1st ed
p. cm.
ISBN 0-8263-1687-5
1. Lopez-Stafford, Gloria, 1937-Childhood and youth
2. Mexican AmericansTexasEl PasoBiography.
3. El Paso Tex.)Biography. I. Title.
F394.E4.L67 1996
976.4'96-dc20
[B] 95-32451
CIP

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To my daughters, Michele, Heather, Katherine
and my brother Charlie "Carlos" Palm
and
For all those who have known and loved El Paso,
the place in the sun!

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CONTENTS

Part I
The Projects

1
Prologue, 1949

2
The Second Ward and My Parents

3
St. Vrain Street

4
A Motherless Child

5
The Trouble with English

6
A September Party

7
Plato

8
Macho

9
December 1945

10
Sayings and Secrets

11
Hijo Natural

Part II
The Tenements

12
Poverty and Work

109

13
Sbado de Gloria

126

14
Life with Mara

133

15
Adis

147

Part III
The Storefront

16
Alameda Street

155

Part IV
A Home

17
Pershing Drive

165

18
Cfiro

178

19
El Sol

183

20
October

188

21
If

197

22
Christmas 1949

208

Page 1

PART I
THE PROJECTS

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1
Prologue, 1949


"Remember the Alamo!"

The banner slogan was draped across the blackboard of my social studies class in El Paso, Texas. The black letters jumped off the white background. The slogan on the banner was appropriate because the elementary school was named after Sam Houston, first president of the Republic of Texas. The colors were the colors of the school.

It was September and we were going to the auditorium to see the movie, The Battle of the Alamo. Texas history was the course of study for the year and the whole week before the film we made salt maps of the state. I was very proud of my carved Ivory Soap model of the Alamo. I had compared it to the other kids' models before recess and after shaving off more of the soap mission, it looked better and more like the others. I did not want to be different since I was particularly sensitive to laughs and pokes. I wanted it to look as good as Michael's because his was carefully carved and it looked like the mission I had seen in Ysleta, Texas.

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