The wind doesn't need a passport : stories from the U.S.-Mexico borderlands /
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Author / Creator: | Hendricks, Tyche. |
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Imprint: | Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2010. |
Description: | 1 online resource (246 pages) : illustrations, map |
Language: | English |
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Format: | E-Resource Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11216153 |
Summary: | 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. |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (246 pages) : illustrations, map |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9780520945500 0520945506 1282772732 9781282772731 9780520252509 0520252500 |