The Late Great Mexican Border: Reports from a Disappearing Line

by Byrd, Bobby; Byrd, Susannah Mississippi

• ISBN13: 9780938317241
• ISBN10: 0938317245
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1996-09-01
• Publisher: Consortium Book Sales & Dist

Summary

Fasten your seat belt: This book will take you on a bumpy ride through the painful human geography of the border.-Hispanic Magazin "This book may be one of the best collections of border essays and insights I've read. The editors have wisely chosen to include some of the best writers from the region instead of the usual hash of academics. When I wasn't laughing, I was crying. How often can you really say that about a book?"-El Planeta Platica "There probably isn't another press in the country that could pull together such a smart and heartfelt anthology as this. After all, they live in the thick of it."-The New Mexican "An exceptional collection of essays that takes a long, hard look at the arbitrary line we call the Mexican border." Southwest Books Best Picks for '96-Arizona Daily Star Contributors Max Aguilera-Hellweg Charles Bowden Barbara Ferry Guillermo Gomez-Pena Teresa Leal Linda Lynch Ruben Martinez Tom Miller Gary Nabhan Debbie Nathan Dick Reavis Luis Rodriguez Richard Rodriguez Benjamin Alire Saenz Luis Alberto Urrea Alan Weisman

Table of Contents

Introduction	vii
This Memory Begins with Flight	1	(7)
Luis J. Rodriguez
Blue	8	(28)
Charles Bowden
La Frontera, Sin Sonrisa	36	(7)
Max Aguilera-Hellweg
Love in the Time of Cholera: Waiting for Free Trade on the U.S./Mexico Border	43	(21)
Debbie Nathan
None of Them Talk About Their Dreams	64	(16)
Luis Alberto Urrea
The Last of the Border Lords	80	(21)
Dick J. Reavis
Excerpts from Warrior for Gringostroika	101	(7)
Guillermo Gomez-Pena
Discreets of Laredo	108	(14)
Tom Miller
Cryptic Cacti on the Borderline	122	(17)
Gary Paul Nabhan
Following Jaime	139	(7)
Barbara Ferry
Prop. 187: Birth of a Movement?	146	(10)
Ruben Martinez
Recipe for a Radical	156	(14)
Teresa Leal
Nadine Epstein
The Deadly Harvest of the Sierra Madre	170	(16)
Alan Weisman
Beauty and the Beast, Trashing the Texas/Mexico Border	186	(13)
Linda Lynch
Exile, El Paso, Texas	199	(12)
Benjamin Alire Saenz
Pocho Pioneer	211	(14)
Richard Rodriguez
Notes on Contributors	225