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Author | : Jefferson Morgenthaler |
Publisher | : University of Texas Press |
Total Pages | : 402 |
Release | : 2004-05-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780292702837 |
History, life and culture along the Rio Grande River. History of the border of the United States and Mexico in Texas covering the land, the settlements, and the people from before 1830 to the present.
Author | : Jefferson Morgenthaler |
Publisher | : University of Texas Press |
Total Pages | : 402 |
Release | : 2010-01-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0292778686 |
Winner, William P. Clements Prize, Best Non-Fiction Book on Southwestern America, 2004 Not quite the United States and not quite Mexico, La Junta de los Rios straddles the border between Texas and Chihuahua, occupying the basin formed by the conjunction of the Rio Grande and the Rio Conchos. It is one of the oldest continuously inhabited settlements in the Chihuahuan Desert, ranking in age and dignity with the Anasazi pueblos of New Mexico. In the first comprehensive history of the region, Jefferson Morgenthaler traces the history of La Junta de los Rios from the formation of the Mexico-Texas border in the mid-19th century to the 1997 ambush shooting of teenage goatherd Esquiel Hernandez by U.S. Marines performing drug interdiction in El Polvo, Texas. "Though it is scores of miles from a major highway, I found natives, soldiers, rebels, bandidos, heroes, scoundrels, drug lords, scalp hunters, medal winners, and mystics," writes Morgenthaler. "I found love, tragedy, struggle, and stories that have never been told." In telling the turbulent history of this remote valley oasis, he examines the consequences of a national border running through a community older than the invisible line that divides it.
Author | : Alex Kotlowitz |
Publisher | : Anchor |
Total Pages | : 337 |
Release | : 1999-01-19 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 038547721X |
Bestselling author Alex Kotlowitz is one of this country's foremost writers on the ever explosive issue of race. In this gripping and ultimately profound book, Kotlowitz takes us to two towns in southern Michigan, St. Joseph and Benton Harbor, separated by the St. Joseph River. Geographically close, but worlds apart, they are a living metaphor for America's racial divisions: St. Joseph is a prosperous lakeshore community and ninety-five percent white, while Benton Harbor is impoverished and ninety-two percent black. When the body of a black teenaged boy from Benton Harbor is found in the river, unhealed wounds and suspicions between the two towns' populations surface as well. The investigation into the young man's death becomes, inevitably, a screen on which each town projects their resentments and fears. The Other Side of the River sensitively portrays the lives and hopes of the towns' citizens as they wrestle with this mystery--and reveals the attitudes and misperceptions that undermine race relations throughout America.
Author | : Francisco Cantú |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 2018-02-06 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0735217726 |
NAMED A TOP 10 BOOK OF 2018 BY NPR and THE WASHINGTON POST WINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE IN CURRENT INTEREST FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE NONFICTION AWARD The instant New York Times bestseller, "A must-read for anyone who thinks 'build a wall' is the answer to anything." --Esquire For Francisco Cantú, the border is in the blood: his mother, a park ranger and daughter of a Mexican immigrant, raised him in the scrublands of the Southwest. Driven to understand the hard realities of the landscape he loves, Cantú joins the Border Patrol. He and his partners learn to track other humans under blistering sun and through frigid nights. They haul in the dead and deliver to detention those they find alive. Plagued by a growing awareness of his complicity in a dehumanizing enterprise, he abandons the Patrol for civilian life. But when an immigrant friend travels to Mexico to visit his dying mother and does not return, Cantú discovers that the border has migrated with him, and now he must know the full extent of the violence it wreaks, on both sides of the line.
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Total Pages | : 1052 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Electronic journals |
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An interdisciplinary journal that publishes original research and surveys of current research on Latin America and the Caribbean.
Author | : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Irrigation of Arid Lands |
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Total Pages | : 386 |
Release | : 1919 |
Genre | : Irrigation |
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Author | : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Irrigation of Arid Lands |
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Total Pages | : 630 |
Release | : 1920 |
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Author | : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Irrigation of Arid Lands |
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Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 1919 |
Genre | : Coachella Valley (Calif.) |
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Total Pages | : 472 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Pacific Coast (U.S.) |
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Total Pages | : 1940 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Bibliography |
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