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After a decade of chasing stories around the globe, travel writer Stephanie Elizondo Griest followed the magnetic pull home - only to discover that her native South Texas had been transformed in her absence. In this work, she weaves seven years of stories into a meditation on the existential impact...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Elizondo Griest, Stephanie, 1974- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2017]
Temas:
Mexican Americans > Texas.
Mohawk Indians > New York (State)
Américains d'origine mexicaine > Texas.
Mohawk > New York (État)
HISTORY > Latin America > Mexico.
Mexican Americans
Mohawk Indians
Mexican-American Border Region.
Canadian-American Border Region.
Région frontalière mexicano-américaine.
Région frontalière canado-américaine.
New York (State)
North America > Canadian-American Border Region
North America > Mexican-American Border Region
Texas
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • "After a decade of chasing stories around the globe, intrepid travel writer Stephanie Elizondo Griest followed the magnetic pull home
  • only to discover that her native South Texas had been radically transformed in her absence. Ravaged by drug wars and barricaded by an eighteen-foot steel wall, her ancestral land had become the nation's foremost crossing ground for undocumented workers, many of whom perished along the way. The frequency of these tragedies seemed like a terrible coincidence, before Elizondo Griest moved to the New York / Canada borderlands. Once she began to meet Mohawks from the Akwesasne Nation, however, she recognized striking parallels to life on the southern border"
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