| Patrias: Cuatro Amigos, DOS Países Y El Destino de la Gran Migración Mexicana / Homelands: Four Friends, Two Countries, and the Fate of the Great Mexi Contributor(s): Corchado, Alfredo (Author) |
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ISBN: 0525566902 ISBN-13: 9780525566908 Publisher: Vintage Espanol OUR PRICE: $16.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Language: Spanish Published: September 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Public Policy - Immigration - History | Latin America - Mexico - Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs |
| Dewey: 973.046 |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 5.1" W x 7.8" (0.65 lbs) 400 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Latin America - Cultural Region - Mexican |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Del premiado periodista y experto en inmigraci n Alfredo Corchado nos llega la extensa historia de la gran migraci n mexicana desde finales de los a os ochenta hasta la actualidad. Cuando Alfredo Corchado se traslada a Filadelfia en 1987 como corresponsal de The Wall Street Journal, se sinti como si fuera el nico mexicano en la ciudad. Pero en el restaurant Tequilas conecta con otros dos mexicanos y un mexicoamericano que se sent an tan aislados como l y comienzan una conversaci n sobre qu significa ser mexicano y estadounidense al mismo tiempo y que durar a m s de 30 a os. La perspectiva de estos cuatro amigos -David Suro, due o del restaurante; Primo, acad mico y activista social, Ken Trujillo, criado en Nuevo M xico y con una carrera pol tica por delante y el propio autor, ser el marco en el que se cuenta esta historia. Aunque desde Estados Unidos piensan en M xico y su cultura como su patria original, todos acaban descubriendo que su patria es una mezcla de ambos pa ses. Patrias fusiona lo pol tico y lo personal para tambi n narrar la historia de la ltima gran migraci n mexicana a trav s de los ojos de cuatro amigos desde que la poblaci n mexicana en los Estados Unidos era de 700,000 personas durante los a os setenta hasta los m s de 35 millones de personas en la actualidad. Aparte de proporcionar un importante contexto hist rico para el actual debate sobre inmigraci n, Patrias es una meditaci n personal y oportuna sobre lo que significa ser un "migrante" en Estados Unidos. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION From prizewinning journalist and immigration expert Alfredo Corchado comes the sweeping story of the great Mexican migration from the late 1980s to today. When Alfredo Corchado moved to Philadelphia in 1987, he felt as if he was the only Mexican in the city. But in a restaurant called Tequilas, he connected with two other Mexican men and one Mexican American, all feeling similarly isolated. Over the next three decades, the four friends continued to meet, coming together over their shared Mexican roots and their love of tequila. One was a radical activist, another a restaurant/tequila entrepreneur, the third a lawyer/politician. Alfredo himself was a young reporter for the Wall Street Journal. Homelands merges the political and the personal, telling the story of the last great Mexican migration through the eyes of four friends at a time when the Mexican population in the United States swelled from 700,000 people during the 1970s to more than 35 million people today. It is the narrative of the United States in a painful economic and political transition. As we move into a divisive, nativist new era of immigration politics, Homelands is a must-read to understand the past and future of the immigrant story in the United States, and the role of Mexicans in shaping America's history. A deeply moving book full of colorful characters searching for home, it is essential reading. |