In Search of Naunny's Grave Age, Class, Gender and Ethnicity in an American Family

by Trujillo, Nick

• ISBN13: 9780759105003
• ISBN10: 0759105006
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-02-16
• Publisher: AltaMira Press

Summary

Collecting narratives of his grandmother's life, communication researcher NickTrujillo 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 in this experimental ethnography.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
Introduction	1	(19)
Chapter 1. The Family Historian	20	(24)
Chapter 2. A Lifetime of Work, a Lifetime of Poverty	44	(26)
Chapter 3. Sex and the Single Grandma	70	(24)
Chapter 4. Serving Us Proudly and Giving Us Everything	94	(19)
Chapter 5. When Naunny Became a Mexican	113	(19)
Chapter 6. A Frail, Old Woman	132	(22)
Chapter 7. One Last Gasp	154	(19)
Chapter 8. The Search Continues	173	(10)
Appendix: Studying Naunny	183	(14)
Notes	197	(4)
Bibliography	201	(10)
Index	211	(3)
About the Author	214