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... Read More
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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.
Details
- Price: $44.95
- Pages: 264
- Carton Quantity: 22
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Imprint: University of California Press
- Publication Date: 1st June 2010
- Trim Size: 6 x 9 in
- Illustration Note: 22 b-w photographs, 1 map
- ISBN: 9780520252509
- Format: Hardcover
- BISACs:
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Labor & Industrial Relations
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration
Reviews
- Foreword“Anyone interested in border issues, from an academic or lay perspective, will appreciate this book.”
- Cape Cod Times“A gift. . . . We've got to educate ourselves if we're ever going to have meaningful immigration reform. Hendricks' book is a good entry point.”
- Western American Literature“Hendricks’s stories bring [the borderlands] to life.”
- The Morning News“Hendricks has diligently investigated and explored the borderlands, and the result is her fascinating and (for the willing) eye-opening monograph.”
- Washington Post Book World“Tyche Hendricks traveled along both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border to document ordinary lives in an extraordinary environment.”
- Zócalo Public SquareThrough vivid storytelling, Hendricks illuminates not only the unique history of the borderlands, but its people, culture, and politics.”
- San Francisco Chronicle“Succeeds masterfully in making the daily life and communities on both sides of the border jump off the page in all their multi-dimensional glory.”
Author Bio
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.
- Price: $44.95
- Pages: 264
- Carton Quantity: 22
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Imprint: University of California Press
- Publication Date: 1st June 2010
- Trim Size: 6 x 9 in
- Illustrations Note: 22 b-w photographs, 1 map
- ISBN: 9780520252509
- Format: Hardcover
- BISACs:
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Labor & Industrial Relations
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration
– Foreword“Anyone interested in border issues, from an academic or lay perspective, will appreciate this book.”
– Cape Cod Times“A gift. . . . We've got to educate ourselves if we're ever going to have meaningful immigration reform. Hendricks' book is a good entry point.”
– Western American Literature“Hendricks’s stories bring [the borderlands] to life.”
– The Morning News“Hendricks has diligently investigated and explored the borderlands, and the result is her fascinating and (for the willing) eye-opening monograph.”
– Washington Post Book World“Tyche Hendricks traveled along both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border to document ordinary lives in an extraordinary environment.”
– Zócalo Public SquareThrough vivid storytelling, Hendricks illuminates not only the unique history of the borderlands, but its people, culture, and politics.”
– San Francisco Chronicle“Succeeds masterfully in making the daily life and communities on both sides of the border jump off the page in all their multi-dimensional glory.”