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Growing Up in La Colonia
Language: en
Pages: 170
Authors: Margo Porras
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-07-08 - Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

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La Colonia is half a square mile of land separated from the rest of Oxnard by the railroad tracks and home to the people who keep an agricultural empire running
Growing Up in La Colonia: Boomer memories from Oxnard’s barrio
Language: en
Pages: 160
Authors: Margo Porras & Sandra Porras
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019 - Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

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La Colonia is half a square mile of land separated from the rest of Oxnard by the railroad tracks and home to the people who keep an agricultural empire running
Armando and the Blue Tarp School
Language: en
Pages: 0
Authors: Edith Hope Fine
Categories: Juvenile Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-03-15 - Publisher:

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The story of a young Mexican boy living in a colonia (trash dump community) who takes the first steps toward realizing his dream of getting an education.
Canícula
Language: en
Pages: 148
Authors: Norma E. Cantú
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 1995 - Publisher: UNM Press

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In this fictionalized memoir of Laredo, Texas, canícula represents a time between childhood and a yet unknown adulthood.
White Gold Laborers
Language: en
Pages: 336
Authors: Jody L. Lopez & Gabriel A. Lopez with Peggy A.Ford
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007-04-13 - Publisher: Author House

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White Gold Laborers is a social and cultural history of the men, women, and children who, as "sugar beet tenders" were offered opportunity for "permanent reside