Border Angels : the power of one /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Morones, Enrique, author.
Uniform title:	Power of one
Edition:	Second, corrected, re-titled and expanded edition.
Imprint:	San Diego, California : San Diego State University Press, 2015.
Description:	137 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Morones, Enrique. Border Angels (Organization) Mexicans -- Services for -- United States. Immigrants -- Services for -- United States. Political activists -- United States -- Biography. Humanitarian assistance -- Mexican-American Border Region. Illegal aliens -- Mexican-American Border Region -- Social conditions. Foreign workers, Mexican -- Mexican-American Border Region -- Social conditions. Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects. Foreign workers, Mexican -- Social conditions. Humanitarian assistance. Illegal aliens -- Social conditions. Political activists. United States -- Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects. Mexico -- Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects. Mexico. North America -- Mexican-American Border Region. United States. Biography.
Format:	E-Resource Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10772556

Hidden Bibliographic Details
Other authors / contributors:	Griswold del Castillo, Richard.
ISBN:	9781938537905 1938537904
Notes:	Original title: Power of one. Includes bibliographical references.
Summary:	"In the American Southwest and its borderlands, no other social justice advocate has made a greater impact on the lives of undocumented workers than Enrique Morones. In The Power of One, Morones tells his own story (with noted Chicano historian Richard Griswold del Castillo) and the result is a book that unfolds as the singular memoir of someone who took the chance to make a difference--a brave activist who, with his organization, the Border Angels, saves the lives of legions of sojourners, brave, desperate travelers who attempt to cross the hot, beautiful, and dangerous deserts that fuse the United States and Mexico."--Back cover.

Table of Contents:

Introduction / Richard Griswold del Castillo
Border stories : the power of one
Growing up on the border
Becoming a full-time activist
The birth of the Border Angels
Marcha Migrante
National politics and the Border Angels
Friendship Park
Water in the desert
Immigrants and human rights
Appendix A. Juana's letter
Appendix B. Partial list of immigrants who have died crossing the U.S. Mexico border 1994-2007
Appendix C. Myths and realities about Mexican immigration
Appendix D. Silent epigraphs
Postscript.

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