Language and Other Lethal Weapons: Cultural Politics and the Rites of Children as Translators of Culture - eScholarship

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* Chicana Feminist Historian; Professor of History, St. Mary's University; Ph.D., Stanford, U.S. History; M.A., University of Washington; B.A., Western Washington State College. I thank the Tejanas from El Golding, El Six, Crewport, y los otros campos de labor del valle de Yakima. Their translating stories are the heart of this paper. I thank Arturo Madrid, Alicia Gaspar de Alba, and Deena Gonzalez for reading and commenting on this essay. I thank Elizabeth Forsyth for editorial assistance.