| The Wind Doesn't Need a Passport: Stories from the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands Contributor(s): Hendricks, Tyche (Author) |
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ISBN: 0520252500 ISBN-13: 9780520252509 Publisher: University of California Press OUR PRICE: $44.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: June 2010 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Emigration & Immigration - Social Science | Regional Studies |
| Dewey: 303.482 |
| LCCN: 2009046593 |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 6.1" W x 9" (1.10 lbs) 264 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Southwest U.S. - Cultural Region - Mexican |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
