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This memoir of a Mexican-American who grew up in a Depression era orphanage reminds us why the great "melting pot" concept did not work.
Through the
eyes of one of its own, Stewing in the Melting Pot will touch the
hearts of all who have lived between two cultures and who have never felt
completely accepted by the mainstream American culture. This is the story
of a Mexican-American family struggling to survive in pre-and post-World
War II America. Robert Sanabria was four years old when his mother took
her four children and fled from an abusive husband in Texas to Los Angeles.
There, unable to care for her children, she was forced to place them in
a Methodist orphanage. In "The Home" Robert learned that his
heritage as a Mexican was not welcome and he was required to abandon his
language, his religion, and his culture to become a "real" American.
Robert tells the powerful story of "The Home's," policy of assimilation
and how it led to his own development as a confused and identity-starved
adult. Buy
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