Preciado Martin was born in Prescott, Arizona[1] in 1939.[2] At the age of three, she and her family moved to Tucson.[3] In 1960, Preciado Martin received her bachelor's degree in education from the University of Arizona.[4]
In the early 1960s, she was a volunteer in the Peace Corps,[1] where she served in British Honduras (now known as Belize).[5] From 1979 to 1983, Preciado Martin was a member of the research team that collected photographs and oral histories directly from Tucson's Mexican American community; this project, the Mexican Heritage Project, was a collaboration worked with the Arizona Historical Society to save stories about the Tucson's Mexican American community.[6][1]
Work and writings
Preciado Martin is known for her work collecting oral histories from older Mexican-Americans.[7] She has spoken about discrimination against Mexican-American women,[8] and works to share stories of her heritage in order to keep it from becoming "homogenized".[9] Preciado Martin has worked with photographers to combine oral histories with pictures of Arizona residents[10] and Mexican American families.[11] In her 1992 book, Songs My Mother Sang to Me: An Oral History of Mexican American Women, she shared interviews of Arizona-area Mexican-American women who present different pasts.[12] In 2000, her book, Amor Eterno: Eleven Lessons in Love, shared the story of a woman who prayed for her son's return from war.[13] Her 2016 book, El Milagro and Other Stories, was adapted into a shadow play presented in Tucson in 2016.[14]
In 1997, Preciado Martin was named by the Arizona Library Association as Arizona Author of the Year in 1997.[4][25] She received the Arizona Humanities Council Distinguished Public Scholar Award of Excellence in 2000.[26][1] She has also received an award from the Mujer 2000 committee and the University of Arizona Hispanic Alumni Association.[26][more detail needed] In 2001, she received the Southwest Book Award.[4][1] In 2003, she delivered the Lawrence Clark Powell lecture,[26] and in 2005 she received the Sharlot Hall award.[4][27]
Anderson, Aengus. "Patricia Preciado Martin". Tucsonense. Podcast. Recorded Oct 30, 2016. Retrieved 20 February 2021.
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