Description: In the long tradition of the "testimonio," or personal narrative, Migrant Daughter is a deeply affecting memoir of a Mexican-American woman's coming-of-age during the 1930s-1950s, moving from rural New Mexico to life as a farm laborer in California, and finally to the campus at UC Berkeley as a scholarship student.
Review Quotes: "An important historical document. . . . A wonderful tool for the analyses of a variety of theories relating to border cultural studies and the politics of identity."--"Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies