Mexican voices of the border region / Laura Velasco Ortiz and Oscar F. Contreras ; with translations by Sandra del Castillo.

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Voices of Latin American life.
Main Author: Velasco Ortiz, M. Laura
Other Authors: Contreras Montellano, Oscar F.
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : Temple University Press, [2011], ©2011.
Series:Voices of Latin American life.
Subjects:
Mexican-American Border Region > Social conditions.
Mexican-American Border Region > Emigration and immigration > Social aspects.
Mexicans > Mexican-American Border Region > Social conditions.
Mexican Americans > Mexican-American Border Region > Social conditions.
Mexicans > Mexican-American Border Region > Ethnic identity.
Mexican Americans > Mexican-American Border Region > Ethnic identity.
Social ecology > Mexican-American Border Region.
Physical Description:xviii, 216 pages : illustrations.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Living on the agricultural frontier : a farm worker in the San Quintin Valley
  • Home, sweet home : the life of an industrial homeworker
  • Sex without kisses, love with abuse : life as a sex worker
  • Juan unafraid : a straight-dealing drug trafficker
  • The life of an indigenous woman street vendor in Tijuana
  • Taking care of the chameleon : a caregiver-commuter
  • A border acrobat : living without documents on both sides
  • The Mexicali panther : from people smuggler to drug trafficker
  • Identity in balance : a Mexican American youth in California
  • Guarding the American dream : the obligations of a border patrol official.