| Title |
Esperanza and Gavino Aguayo, No. 1, Hispanic Oral Histories, Accn 1369 |
| Creator |
Aguayo, Esperanza, 1932-; Aguayo, Gavino |
| Contributor |
Kelen, Leslie G., 1949- |
| Date |
1985-02-06 |
| Date Digital |
2016-05-02 |
| Spatial Coverage |
Bingham, Salt Lake County, Utah, United States |
| Subject |
Mexican Americans--Utah--Interviews; Aguayo, Esperanza, 1932- --Interviews; Aguayo, Gavnio--Interviews; Discrimination against Mexican Americans; Emigration and immigration--Social aspects |
| Access Rights |
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| Description |
Transcript (102 pages) of part 1 of 2 of interviews by Leslie Kelen with Esperanza and Gavnio Aguayo, on February 6, 1985 and February 25, 1985. |
| Collection Number and Name |
ACCN 1369, Hispanic Oral Histories, 1984-1987 |
| Abstract |
Esperanza Aguaya (b. 1932) recalls her parents and their stories about various revolutions in Mexico. She explains how her parents came here from Mexico intending to stay one year and never went back. She and her brother, Gavino, remember their childhood in Bingham, a small mining town in Utah. Topics discussed include the differences in what girls and boys were allowed to do, street games, Hispanic culture, school, neighbors and friends from various ethnic groups, living conditions in Bingham, and racial/ethnic discrimination. |
| Type |
Text |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Extent |
102 pages |
| Language |
eng |
| Rights |
 |
| Rights Holder |
For further information please contact Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah at spcreference@lists.utah.edu or (801)581-8863 or 295 South 1500 East, 4th Floor, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112 |
| Relation |
http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv46923 |
| Scanning Technician |
Mazi Rakhsha |
| Conversion Specifications |
Original scanned with Kirtas 2400 and saved as 400 ppi uncompressed TIFF. PDF generated by Adobe Acrobat Pro X for CONTENTdm display |
| ARK |
ark:/87278/s64j2mvp |
| Topic |
Mexican Americans; Emigration and immigration--Social aspects |
| Genre |
oral histories (literary works) |
| Setname |
uum_hoh |
| ID |
893604 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s64j2mvp |
| Title |
Page 24 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_hoh |
| ID |
893522 |
| OCR Text |
Show OHI Esperanza y GAvino Aguayo s3:22 oh, Lord, that's all I need. (laughs) I did: .accept it. And - t hree months later, he was dead. We brought him here, all right. We brought him here to bury him. But that's what happened to my uncle. They took something really important away from us. Because ·we didn't know anybody else. We didn't know our uncles in Mexico. We didn't know our aunts. We never knew our grandparents. But this one uncle we knew. L Your family was so cut off. EA It was a big family, but we were cut off. And he was the only one we knew. And we lost him. Right soon as·~we lost my Dad, we lost him, too. L May I ask you something. When you were growing up, what are the memories you have of your parents. GA I can't really recall becuase I don't really think I was close to my Dad. My Dad, I think, he was just work. And I think he spent all his time working. I was never really -- I can't really say, I don't think he understood me. Maybe I did him -- because I remember when we first come, he kept me out of school because we were going to go back to Mexico. EA And he didn't want him to go to school - GA He didn't want me to learn bad habits, I guess EA --go to school with girls. GA (laugh) So - he thought that way. EA He was from the old country. The old country. GA But he never- he wasn't strict like a - anything like that with me.:In fact, considering what I've seen some of the other boys, |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s64j2mvp/893522 |
