La Sociedad : Guardians of Hispanic Culture Along the Rio Grande

Jose A. Rivera

ISBN 10: 0826348947 / ISBN 13: 9780826348944

Published by University Of New Mexico Press Feb 2011, 2011

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Neuware - In 1900 Celedonio Mondragon and several other San Luis valley residents formed the Sociedad Proteccin Mtua de Trabajadores Unidos (SPMDTU) to help prevent the usurpation of Hispanic land ownership and to combat discrimination against wage laborers. The SPMDTU rapidly grew into a tri-state organization with sixty-five local concilios (lodges) in New Mexico, Colorado, and Utah. Hispanic mutual aid societies proliferated at the turn of the twentieth century, providing such services as religious aid, burial funding, low-cost insurance, and fraternal support.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: La Sociedad : Guardians of Hispanic Culture Along the Rio Grande
• Publisher: University Of New Mexico Press Feb 2011
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0826348947
• ISBN 13: 9780826348944
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 235W x 161H x 21D millimeters 235 millimeters width by 161 millimeters height by 21 millimeters depth
• Weight: 475 grams

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Synopsis

Rivera's study explores the core values that have bonded SPMDTU members across generations and have sustained the organization for more than a century and addresses the question of whether or not La Sociedad will survive in the twenty-first century.

About the Author

José A. Rivera is professor emeritus of community and regional planning at the University of New Mexico. He is the author of Acequia Culture: Water, Land, and Community in the Southwest (UNM Press).