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Campus Book Project

By immigrationprof

Urreadevilshighwayauth_w2 Every year, the UC Davis campus reads a book and holds a series of lectures and events to discuss the book.  For the 2007-08 acadenic year, the book will be Pulitzer Prize finalist The Devil’s Highway: A True Story, by Luis Alberto Urrea.  Through this book, UC Davis hopes to engage the nationwide debate over immigration. The Devil’s Highway recounts a 2001 border incident in which 14 men died in the desert Southwest while attempting to cross from Mexico into Arizona. They were among a group of 26 men led by inexperienced “coyotes,” or human smugglers. Published in 2004, The Devil’s Highway was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction the next year.  Click here for more about the book and the book project.

Hopefully, the book project will produce a civil dialogue on immigration and immigrants.  Unfortunately civility often has been missing from the debate over immigration reform.

KJ