Alfredo Corchado

Homelands (eBook, ePUB)

Four Friends, Two Countries, and the Fate of the Great Mexican-American Migration

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

From prizewinning journalist and immigration expert Alfredo Corchado comes the sweeping story of the great Mexican migration from the late 1980s to today.

Homelands is the story of Mexican immigration to the United States over the last three decades. Written by Alfredo Corchado, one of the most prominent Mexican American journalists, it's told from the perspective of four friends who first meet in a Mexican restaurant in Philadelphia in 1987. One was a radical activist, another a restaurant/tequila entrepreneur, the third a lawyer/politician, and the fourth, Alfredo, a hungry young reporter for the Wall Street Journal. Over the course of thirty years, the four friends continued to meet, coming together to share stories of the turning points in their lives-the death of parents, the births of children, professional milestones, stories from their families north and south of the border.

Using the lens of this intimate narrative of friendship, the book chronicles one of modern America's most profound transformations-during which Mexican Americans swelled to become our largest single minority, changing the color, economy, and culture of America itself. In 1970, the Mexican population was just 700,000 people, but despite the recent decline in Mexican immigration to the United States, the Mexican American population has now passed three million-a result of high birth rates here in the United States. In the wake of the nativist sentiment unleased in the recent election, Homelands will be a must-read for policy makers, activists, Mexican Americas, and all those wishing to truly understand the background of our ongoing immigration debate.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Juni 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781632865564
• Artikelnr.: 53433306

Autorenporträt

Alfredo Corchado is the Border, Mexico, correspondent of the Dallas Morning News and author of Midnight in Mexico: A Reporter's Journey Through a Country's Descent into Darkness. Born in Durango, Mexico, and raised in California and Texas, Corchado previously worked for the Wall Street Journal. He is a Neiman, Woodrow Wilson, Rockefeller, and USMEX fellow and the winner of the Maria Moors Cabot Prize and the Elijah Parish Lovejoy Award for Courage in Journalism. Corchado lives in Mexico City but calls the border home