The Norquest Family: a porción of Edinburg

Creator

University of Texas--Pan American. Community Historical Archaeology Project with Schools Program (CHAPS)
Margaret E. Dorsey
Sandra Hernandez-Salinas
Maria Barrera
Roseann Bacha-Garza, The University of Texas Rio Grande ValleyFollow

Files

Creation Date

2012

Description

The Norquest family immigrated to their farm site in 1925 as part of a larger wave of Midwestern immigrants to the Lower Rio Grande Valley. At the turn of the twentieth century, the Valley also experienced an influx of Mexican migrants in search of opportunity and work. They joined their Mexican-American counterparts laboring as agricultural workers on the farms of Anglos and Texas-Mexicans. Some of these individuals found their way onto the Norquest farm site. This multidisciplinary report posits a nuanced way of looking at human-land interaction on a farmsite in South Texas, where racial and class conflict existed, but where, in certain pockets of exception, people from culturally different backgrounds came together to labor and laugh in order to make ends meet.

Physical Description

.PDF, 336 Pages, Illustrations, Photographs, Maps, Genealogical tables

Recommended Citation

University of Texas--Pan American. Community Historical Archaeology Project with Schools Program (CHAPS); Dorsey, Margaret E.; Hernandez-Salinas, Sandra; Barrera, Maria; and Bacha-Garza, Roseann, "The Norquest Family: a porción of Edinburg" (2012). Community Historical Archaeology Project with Schools (CHAPS) Publications. 6.
https://scholarworks.utrgv.edu/chapspublications/6