https://aphnyu.org/creatingdigitalhistory/2024/a-files/files/original/8dbb945a1f163a7c9fabdf6d8d4b6e39.jpg eec2ef8933cf44d79f1e270f62b8e0f8 https://aphnyu.org/creatingdigitalhistory/2024/a-files/files/original/7534b9619bb248b63fb1fabd7ddabc2b.jpg 88b9f8aa0cf8e60623385d29c848541c Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Teresa Reyes Trujillo Description An account of the resource Sources and materials pertaining to Teresa Reyes Trujillo and her A-file. Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Excerpts from "Americanization Through Homemaking" Subject The topic of the resource "Americanization" of Mexican girls in California schools Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Pearl Idelia Ellis Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Library of Congress Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Wetzel Publishing Co. , Inc. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1929 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Public Domain Language A language of the resource English Description An account of the resource These are selections from pages of "Americanization Through Homemaking," a manual meant to help California teachers educate the new and growing population of Mexican girls who had begun filling their classrooms in the early 1900s. The photo from the manual shows Mexican girls in a sewing class. According to her A-file, Teresa Reyes Trujillo attended school in the Pomona Unified School District. This manual hints at what girls who had come to the U.S. from Mexico encountered in California schools. The manual emphasized the importance of "Americanizing" Mexican girls, offered a guide to teaching "homemaking for the foreign girl who comes to us," and envisioned students as a moldable workforce. "We who employ them are challenged to raise their standards of living, improve sanitation, and control disease," wrote author Pearl Idelia Ellis. "If we expect them to adopt to our customs, our ideals, and our country, let us set them a most worthy example." Americanization children education family home economics homemaker marriage Mexican immigration photograph Teresa Reyes Trujillo