Autobiography of Dionicio Morales

Morales's narrative vividly illustrates that the sociocultural system of family structure into which a child is born appears to have an especially strong impact on the shape of Mexican-American childhood experience, attitudes, and behavior. The family background, including the moral and ethical values inculcated into the child, can also be seen to have been decisive in shaping individual life choices as well as the psychosocial continuity of character.

The big picture of Morales's book is that it provides a survey of headline events of U.S. and California history and culture over the course of the 20th century, in particular those events associated with emerging Mexican and Mexican-American history, culture, and group experience. Origins are important to Morales, and for his father, America was the golden land of economic and social opportunity, as well as a refuge from the oppression of revolution and social instability that marked Mexico in the early 20th century. But that was also a time in which ethnic consciousness and social theory as now understood were not included in the discourse of immigration or in nativist-immigrant encounters. This expla

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Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page)

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