The wind doesn't need a passport [[electronic resource] ] : stories from the U.S.-Mexico borderlands / / Tyche Hendricks

• Autore: Hendricks Tyche
• Pubblicazione: Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2010
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (262 p.)
• Disciplina: 303.48/209721
• Soggetto topico: International relations
• Soggetto geografico: Mexican-American Border Region Social conditions
• Soggetto non controllato: americans; border policies; border residents; borderlands; common grounds; controversial; cowboys; crossing border; cultural exchange; debated; divisive; emigration; factory workers; factual account; immigration and immigrants; immigration; international relations; international trade; journalism; mexicans; national conflict; nonfiction; personal stories; political policies; united states border; united states passport; us mexico relations
• Note generali: "Portions of this work originally appeared, in different form, in the San Francisco Chronicle series "On The Border."
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- 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 -- Selected bibliography -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 dazzling portrait of one of the least understood and most debated regions in the country, Hendricks introduces us to the ordinary Americans and Mexicans who live there-cowboys and Indians, factory workers and physicians, naturalists and nuns. A new picture of the borderlands emerges, and we find that this region is not the dividing line so often imagined by Americans, but is a common ground alive with the energy of cultural exchange and international commerce, burdened with too-rapid growth and binational conflict, and underlain with a deep sense of history.
• Titolo autorizzato: The wind doesn't need a passport
• ISBN: 1-282-77273-2; 9786612772733; 0-520-94550-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910784955803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II