In an era of increasing anti-immigrant sentiment and bigotry, each of these 13 stories illuminates the issues affecting the Mexican community and shows the breadth of a frequently stereotyped population.
INTRODUCTION
Thirty Years of Resistance
CHAPTER ONE
A Better Life
CHAPTER TWO
Why Don’t They Want Us?
CHAPTER THREE
Oaxacalifornia
CHAPTER FOUR
A Question of Honor
CHAPTER FIVE
Sanctuary
CHAPTER SIX
A Life Lived Within Twenty-Nine Miles
CHAPTER SEVEN
Life Is No Disneyland
CHAPTER EIGHT
Captain of His People
CHAPTER NINE
Families Caught Between Two Worlds
CHAPTER TEN
Little Legs, Big Dreams
CHAPTER ELEVEN
The Future Is Female
CHAPTER TWELVE
Lawyer Dreams
CHAPTER THIRTEEN
Boycott
EPILOGUE
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
NOTES
Originally from Mexico, journalist Eileen Truax has lived in Los Angeles since 2004. Truax contributes regularly to the Spanish-language versions of the New York Times, Newsweek, and Vice, as well as for other Latin American and Spanish publications. Truax is the author of Dreamers- An Immigrant Generation's Fight for Their American Dream and forthcoming author of We Built the Wall, about how the US shuts down asylum seekers (Verso, 2018).
“Clarifying and timely.”
—Booklist
“An urgent book for our times. When immigrant voices are being
silenced, when immigrant families are being torn apart, when
immigrant youth are being denied their right to dream of a better
future, this book inspires us to see, to listen, and to understand.
Above all, it celebrates the tenacity and resilience of a community
whose stories are, without any doubt, part of the American
experience.”
—Reyna Grande, author of The Distance Between Us
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