Book Talk: "We Became Mexican American: How Our Immigrant Family Survived to Pursue the American Dream"

Please join us when emeritus professor Carlos B. Gil discusses his award-winning book We Became Mexican American: How Our Immigrant Family Survived to Pursue the American Dream (Xlibris, 2012).

 

We Became Mexican American is a candid account of the author’s ancestors and how they abandoned their homes in west-central Mexico to go north, eventually laying the groundwork to pursue the American Dream in Southern California. Based on recorded interviews, the author reveals how his family adjusted to culture shock, the jobs the Gils took that put food on the table (including the micro businesses they launched), and how they survived the Great Depression as well as a tragic accident that nearly derailed them--all to become Mexican American.

 

This event is FREE.

 

Co-sponsored by the UCLA Cesar E. Chavez Department of Chicana/o Studies, Latin American Institute Center for Mexican Studies, Department of History, Graduate School of Education and Information Studies Paulo Freire Institute, and the CSRC.