Patricia Preciado Martin

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]

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]

• Martin, Patricia Preciado (1983). Images and Conversations Mexican Americans Recall a Southwestern Past. Tucson: University of Arizona Press. p. 111. ISBN 9780816508037. Retrieved 20 February 2021.
  • Reviewed by the Journal of Arizona History.^[15]
• Martin, Patricia Preciado (1992). Songs My Mother Sang to Me An Oral History of Mexican American Women. Tucson: University of Arizona Press. p. 224. ISBN 9780816513291. Retrieved 20 February 2021.
  • The book was reviewed by publications centered on women^[16][17] and American history.^[18][19]
• Martin, Patricia Preciado (2000). Amor Eterno Eleven Lessons in Love. Tucson: University of Arizona Press. p. 110. ISBN 9780816519941. Retrieved 20 February 2021.
  • The book was reviewed by the popular press.^[20][21]
• Martin, Patricia Preciado (2004). Beloved Land An Oral History of Mexican Americans in Southern Arizona. Tucson: University of Arizona Press. p. 150. ISBN 9780816523825.
  • Reviewed by Southwestern Historical Quarterly^[22] and Agricultural History^[23]
• Martin, Patricia Preciado (2016). El Milagro and Other Stories. Tucson: University of Arizona Press. p. 108. ISBN 9780816515486.
  • Reviewed by the Journal of Arizona History^[24]

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]

• "Patricia Preciado Martin papers, 1959-2015 Patricia Preciado Martin papers". azarchivesonline.org. Retrieved 2022-02-18.
• Anderson, Aengus. "Patricia Preciado Martin". Tucsonense. Podcast. Recorded Oct 30, 2016. Retrieved 20 February 2021.