Research Catalog

Title

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

Author

Velasco Ortiz, M. Laura.

Publication

Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2011.

Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

Contreras Montellano, Oscar F.

Description

xviii, 216 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Series Statement

Voices of Latin American life

Uniform Title

• Project Muse UPCC books
• Voices of Latin American life.

Subject

• Mexican Americans > Mexican-American Border Region > Ethnic identity
• Mexican Americans > Social conditions
• Mexican-American Border Region > Social aspects
• Mexican-American Border Region > Social conditions
• Mexicans > Mexican-American Border Region > Ethnic identity
• Mexicans > Mexican-American Border Region > Social conditions
• Social ecology > Mexican-American Border Region

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Living on the agricultural frontier -- Home, sweet industrial home -- Sex without kisses, love with abuse -- A straight-dealing drug trafficker -- An indigenous woman street vendor -- A caregiver commuter -- A border acrobat -- The Mexicali panther -- A young Mexican American -- Guarding the American dream.

ISBN

• 9781592139088 (hardback : alk. paper)
• 1592139086 (hardback : alk. paper)
• 9781592139095 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 1592139094 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 9781592139101 (electronic)
• 1592139108 (electronic)

LCCN

^^2010030557