Oral history interview with Gloria Gonzalez-Cook, conducted by Guadalupe Galvez-Zamora (transcript)

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Title Oral history interview with Gloria Gonzalez-Cook, conducted by Guadalupe Galvez-Zamora (transcript)
Creator Gonzalez-Cook, Gloria
Contributor Galvez-Zamora, Guadalupe; Genealogical Society Of Hispanic America, Utah Chapter
Date 2022-03-23
Spatial Coverage Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah
Subject Hispanic Americans; University of Utah; Race discrimination; Chicano movement; Chavez, Cesar, 1927-1993
Keywords grape boycott
Description Gloria Gonzalez-Cook discusses growing up in Salt Lake City, and her efforts to learn Spanish. She talks about her family's background in Mexico and living in Colorado, Wyoming, and Utah. She discusses family traditions around food, and attending West High in Salt Lake City. She discusses people encouraging Hispanic children to work as opposed to attending college. Gonzales-Cook remembers studying Spanish and Chicano studies at the University of Utah. She discusses the Chicano movement and the discrimination her uncles faced after serving in the military.
Type Text
Genre oral histories (literary works)
Format application/pdf
Extent 20 pages
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Rights Holder Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah
ARK ark:/87278/s6basheh
Collection Name Construyendo Latinidad
Setname uum_cliw
ID 2050000
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6basheh
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