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These books explore illegal border crossings between the United States and Mexico, and the fates of those who make the trip.
Border games: policing the U.S.-Mexico divide - Peter Andreas
Call Number: 363.450972 An2b
Andreas explores the contradictions between the liberalized trade regulations brought about by NAFTA and and the increased policing of the U.S./Mexico border to discourage the smuggling of people, drugs, and illegal goods.
Borderlands: the new mestiza = La frontera - Anzaldúa, Gloria.
Call Number: 811.5 An9b
Borderlands/La Frontera has become a classic in Chicano border studies, feminist theory, gay & lesbian studies & cultural studies. Experimental, innovative, provocative & above all visionary, Borderlands/La Frontera is widely recognized as a foundational exploration of the politics & poetics of cultural hybridity. This new edition features a critical introduction by noted Chicana scholar Sonia Saldivar-Hull, author of Feminism on the Border, that provides an overview of the important contributions Borderlands/La Frontera has made to discussions of race, gender, class & sexuality
Coyotes: a journey across borders with America’s illegal migrants - Ted Conover
Call Number: 331.62 C76c
The compelling adventure of a young writer who poses as a Mexican wetback to discover the hardships, fear and camaraderie of illegal aliens crossing the border to work in the United States.
Crossing borders, reinforcing borders: social categories, metaphors, and narrative identities on the U.S.-Mexico frontier - Vila, Pablo.
Call Number: 306.09721 V71c
Not only does the U.S. Border Patrol strive to "hold the line" against illegal immigrants, but many residents on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border seek to define and bound themselves apart from groups they perceive as "others."This pathfinding ethnography charts the social categories, metaphors, and narratives that inhabitants use to define their group identity and distinguish themselves from "others.
The devil’s highway: a true story - Luis Alberto Urrea
Call Number: 304.873072 Ur7d
In May 2001, a group of men attempted to cross the border into the desert of southern Arizona, through the deadliest region of the continent, a place called the Devil's Highway. Fathers and sons, brothers and strangers, entered a desert so harsh and desolate that even the Border Patrol is afraid to travel through it. Twelve came back out.
The floating borderlands: twenty-five years of U.S. Hispanic literature - Flores, Lauro., ed.
Call Number: 810.80868 F65f
This anthology celebrates the 25th anniversary of The Americas Review, a journal of Hispanic literary arts. Selections are arranged in three parts: Nationhood Messengers, from the Latino communities of the 1970s; Memory Makers, polished works successful in the American mainstream from the 1980s; and New Navigators of the Floating Borderlands, featuring emerging writers just beginning to be heard.
Fugitive landscapes: the forgotten history of the U.S.-Mexico borderlands - Samuel Truett
Call Number: 972.1 T76f
In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Mexicans and Americans joined together to transform the U.S.-Mexico borderlands into a crossroads of modern economic development. This book reveals the forgotten story of their ambitious dreams and their ultimate failure to control this fugitive terrain.
How the other half work: immigration and the social organization of labor - Waldinger, Roger David.
Call Number: 331.620979494 W14h
How the other half works solves the riddle of America’s contemporary immigration puzzle: why an increasingly high-tech society has use for so many immigrants who lack the basic skills that today’s economy seems to demand.
Italians then, Mexicans now: immigrant origins and second-generation progress, 1890 to 2000 - Joel Perlmann
Call Number: 330.973 P42i
"Italians Then, Mexicans Now" persuasively argues that today's Mexican immigrants are making slow but steady socioeconomic progress and may one day reach parity with earlier immigrant groups who moved up into the heart of American middle-class society.
Mexicans & Americans: cracking the cultural code - Ned Crouch
Call Number: 303.482 C88m
The author helps us understand the most critical elements that determine what works and what doesn't when Mexicans and Americans come together in business: our different views of time and space, and our construction and use of language.
Strangers at the gates: new immigrants in urban America - Waldinger, Roger.
Call Number: 305.90691 St8w
Looks at the connection between urban fates and immigrant destinies, asking about the prospects for progress in the capitals of immigrant America, and inquiring into the conditions that will hinder or aid the newest Americans in their quest to get ahead.
Undocumented in L.A.: an immigrant’s story - Hart, Dianne Walta.
Call Number: 306.8508968 H25u
This eye-opening work will show the reader the opposition and difficulties undocumented immigrants face in a nation that at first beckons them with freedom, then rejects them with unwelcoming borders and restrictive laws.
Woman hollering creek, and other stories - Cisneros, Sandra.
Call Number: 813.5 C49w
A collection of stories, whose characters give voice to the vibrant and varied life on both sides of the Mexican border. The women in these stories offer tales of pure discovery, filled with moments of infinite and intimate wisdom.
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