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First edition. |
| Description |
x, 218 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
The William & Bettye Nowlin series in art, history, and culture of the Western Hemisphere
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William & Bettye Nowlin series in art, history, and culture of the Western Hemisphere.
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| Contents |
Part One. Preparation -- Part Two. The Start of a Journey : Ready, Set, Go! -- Part Three. Redeparture : From the Heartland to the New South -- Part Four. Redefining the Borderlands : Uncharted Waters in Familiar Territory -- Epilogue. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Summary |
Deeply troubled by the gathering backlash against Latino immigration in recent years, Mendoza, a Mexican-American academic (Univ. of Minn.) and author (Crossing into America), took his outrage on the road, crossing the continent over five months in 2007 in an attempt to gain insight into the experience of Latinos from shore to shore. Choosing a bike over a car was a way to get in shape during his sabbatical year, though cycling also proved a key to gaining trust among the people he needed to meet: the often shunned, invisible, disenfranchised immigrant workers who made the shops, factories, fields, mines, and dairies run every day. From Santa Cruz, Calif., he headed northward in July, toward Eugene, Ore., then due east, hitting his midway point of Minneapolis six weeks later. Then, from Chicago and Detroit he traveled to Boston and New York, then pressing down the coast to Florida and across to Houston, Tex., where his family lived. He offers reflections from his blog on the personal toll the arduous journey took, and records interviews with many of the locals he met and who offered him acts of kindness. The snapshots of these myriad lives are relevant and moving. |
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Hispanic Americans -- Social life and customs.
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Immigrants -- United States -- Social life and customs.
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United States -- Civilization -- Hispanic influences.
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Social change -- United States.
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Mendoza, Louis Gerard, 1960- -- Travel -- United States.
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Cycling -- United States.
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United States -- Description and travel.
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United States -- Social life and customs -- 1971-
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United States -- Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects.
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Latin America -- Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects.
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| ISBN |
9780292742086 cloth alkaline paper |
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0292742088 cloth alkaline paper |
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9780292743878 paper alkaline paper |
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0292743874 paper alkaline paper |
| Sudoc No. |
Z UA380.8 M523jo txdocs |
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