9780292752658-0292752652-The Medicine of Memory: A Mexica Clan in California

The Medicine of Memory: A Mexica Clan in California

ISBN-13: 9780292752658
ISBN-10: 0292752652
Edition: 1
Author:
Publication date: 2002
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Format: Hardcover 256 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780292752658
ISBN-10: 0292752652
Edition: 1
Author:
Publication date: 2002
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Format: Hardcover 256 pages

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The Medicine of Memory: A Mexica Clan in California (ISBN-13: 9780292752658 and ISBN-10: 0292752652), written by authors , was published by University of Texas Press in 2002. With an overall rating of 3.9 stars, it's a notable title among other books. You can easily purchase or rent The Medicine of Memory: A Mexica Clan in California (Hardcover) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.53.

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"People who live in California deny the past," asserts Alejandro Murguía. In a state where "what matters is keeping up with the current trends, fads, or latest computer gizmo," no one has "the time, energy, or desire to reflect on what happened last week, much less what happened ten years ago, or a hundred." From this oblivion of memory, he continues, comes a false sense of history, a deluded belief that the way things are now is the way they have always been.

In this work of creative nonfiction, Murguía draws on memories—his own and his family's reaching back to the eighteenth century—to (re)construct the forgotten Chicano-indigenous history of California. He tells the story through significant moments in California history, including the birth of the mestizo in Mexico, destruction of Indian lifeways under the mission system, violence toward Mexicanos during the Gold Rush, Chicano farm life in the early twentieth century, the Chicano Movement of the 1960s, Chicano-Latino activism in San Francisco in the 1970s, and the current rebirth of Chicano-Indio culture. Rejecting the notion that history is always written by the victors, and refusing to be one of the vanquished, he declares, "This is my California history, my memories, richly subjective and atavistic."

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