, to see if you have full access to this publication.
Book Titles No access
In Search of Naunny's Grave
Age, Class, Gender and Ethnicity in an American Family
Authors:
Publisher:
2004
Summary
Elsie Martinez Trujillo Alcaraz, 'Naunny' to her grandson and communication scholar Nick Trujillo, was a working class woman, daughter of New Mexico Hispanos, and eventually the resident of a Los Angeles nursing home. She becomes the focal point for Trujillo's experimental ethnography of family relations, aging, and ethnic identity throughout the twentieth century. Collecting narratives of his grandmother's life, Trujillo learns how family members use stories to define the family's sense of itself and create collective views on intergenerational relations, social history, gender, class, and ethnicity. Through these stories, family photos, and his own recollections, supplemented with Elsie's letters and journal entries, the author is able to explore topics often ignored in life histories of the elderly—sexuality, body image, eating disorders, marital discord, mobility patterns, racial prejudice, and interactions with the health care system. Trujillo's presentation brings Naunny's humor, liveliness, and generosity alive for scholars and students alike and provides a vivid portrait of being Hispanic and female in the 20th century American west.
Search publication
Bibliographic data
Copyright year
2004
ISBN-Print
978-0-7591-0500-3
ISBN-Online
978-0-7591-1580-4
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
215
Product type
Book Titles
Table of contents
ChapterPages
Contents No access
Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 19
Chapter 1. The Family Historian No access Pages 20 - 43
Chapter 2. A Lifetime of Work, a Lifetime of Poverty No access Pages 44 - 69
Chapter 3. Sex and the Single Grandma No access Pages 70 - 93
Chapter 4. Serving Us Proudly and Giving Us Everything No access Pages 94 - 112
Chapter 5. When Naunny Became a Mexican No access Pages 113 - 131
Chapter 6. A Frail, Old Woman No access Pages 132 - 153
Chapter 7. One Last Gasp No access Pages 154 - 172
Chapter 8. The Search Continues No access Pages 173 - 182
Appendix: Studying Naunny No access Pages 183 - 196
