Angels Town Paperback by Ralph Cintron

Product Details

• Publisher: Beacon Press (1998-11-01)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 288 pages
• ISBN-13: 9780807046371
• Item Weight: 394.07 grams
• Dimensions: 22.86 x 15.24 x 1.75 cm

As issues of power and social order loom large in Angelstown, Ralph Cintron shows how eruptions on the margins of the community are emblematic of a deeper disorder. In their language and images, the members of a Latino community in a midsized American city create self-respect under conditions of disrepect. Cintron's innovative ethnography offers a beautiful portrait of a struggling Mexican-American community and shows how people (including ethnographers) make sense of their lives through cultural forms.

About the Author

Ralph Cintron is associate professor of rhetoric at the University of Iowa, Iowa City.