Dissertation Information for Alvero Ochoa-Serrano NAME: - Alvero Ochoa-Serrano
DEGREE:
- Ph.D.
DISCIPLINE:
- History
SCHOOL:
- University of California, Los Angeles (USA) (1998)
ADVISORS: - James W. Wilkie
COMMITTEE MEMBERS: - Jose Carlos Moya - Juan Gomez-Quinones - Steve Loza
MPACT Status: Fully Complete
Title: Michoacanos in Los Angeles: United States-Mexican transnational culture 1920--1970
Abstract: This study focuses on a cultural and historical inquiry into housing, clothing, food, leisure activities, and symbols as well as how these cultural traditions developed reciprocally in Los Angeles and in Michoacan. The majority of western Mexican migration to southern California was from Michoacan. In the dissertation I examine migration dynamics and aspects of daily life in Mexican and Chicano families, and their old and new ways of living.
Exploring cultural change among migrants over time involves studying popular traditions, migratory circuits, golondrinos or seasonal migrants, Michoacan food, "Mexicana alegria" and other cultural manifestations within Michoacan migration flows.
Rancheros or Criollo farmers, Indigenous and Mestizo peasants represent the wide variation within the Mexican population. Michoacan culture is just as socially, ethnically, nationally, multiculturally diverse. However the migration process tended to homogenize this diversity in the United States.
The methodological approaches include archival research coupled with oral interviews and some demographic analysis. Individual-community relations were studied within one specific 1920-1970 period. Considering that culture has been a relevant factor in migration, this work illustrates the process of how Michoacanos shaped culture and identity and how it is replenished through constant interchange in Michoacan and Los Angeles. Indexing (document details)
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