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The wind doesn't need a passport : stories from the U.S.-Mexico borderlands /

Award-winning journalist Tyche Hendricks has explored the U.S.-Mexico borderlands by car and by foot, on horseback, and in the back of a pickup truck. She has shared meals with border residents, listened to their stories, and visited their homes, churches, hospitals, farms, and jails. In this dazzli...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hendricks, Tyche
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2010.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The Wind Doesn't Need a Passport; CONTENTS; MAP OF THE U.S.
  • MEXICO BORDERLANDS; INTRODUCTION; ONE
  • ELSA : "WE WANT TO HOLD OUR KIDS CLOSE FOREVER"; TWO
  • McALLEN/REYNOSA: "MOST PEOPLE HERE WORK IN THE MAQUILADORAS"; THREE
  • HACHITA : "A FENCE IS ONLY AS GOOD AS ITS WEAKEST POINT"; FOUR
  • NOGALES/NOGALES: "IF THEY GET SICK HERE, WE CARE FOR THEM"; FIVE
  • SELLS : "O' ODHAM FIRST AND AMERICAN OR MEXICAN SECOND"; SIX
  • MEXICALI: "THE WIND DOESN'T NEED A PASSPORT"; SEVEN
  • JACUMBA: "THE BORDER IS A SHAM"; EIGHT
  • TIJUANA: "A CONSTANT DRUMBEAT OF KILLINGS"; CONCLUSION; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; NOTES.