In Search of Naunny's Grave

Elsie Martinez Trujillo Alcaraz, ''Naunny'' to her grandson and communication scholar Nick Trujillo, was a working class woman, daughter of New Mexico Hispanos, and eventually the resident of a Los Angeles nursing home. She becomes the focal point for Trujillo''s experimental ethnography of family relations, aging, and ethnic identity throughout the twentieth century. Collecting narratives of his ...