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Homelands: Four Friends, Two Countries, and the Fate of the Great Mexican-American Migration - Couverture souple

Corchado, Alfredo

 
9781632865557: Homelands: Four Friends, Two Countries, and the Fate of the Great Mexican-American Migration
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1632865556 ISBN 13 : 9781632865557
Editeur : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019

Synopsis

"Homelands helps us to see ourselves in each other, and in so doing it gets at the genius of a country that has always aspired to be one out of many." -Beto O'Rourke

A sweeping story of the great Mexican migration from the late 1980s to today, told by prizewinning journalist and immigration expert Alfredo Corchado

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.

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À propos de l'auteur

Alfredo Corchado is the Mexico Border correspondent for the Dallas Morning News and author of Midnight in Mexico. He is a Nieman, Lannan, USMEX, Woodrow Wilson, and Rockefeller fellow and the winner of the Maria Moors Cabot Prize and Elijah Parish Lovejoy Award for courage in journalism. Corchado lives in Mexico City but calls the border home. @ajcorchado

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Éditeur
Bloomsbury Publishing
Date d'édition
2019
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1632865556
ISBN 13 
9781632865557
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
320
Coordonnées du fabricant
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