New Immigration Books
UNDERGROUND AMERICA: Narratives of Undocumented Lives Edited by Peter Orner Foreword by Luis Alberto Urrea (2008)
They arrive from around the world for countless reasons. Many come simply to make a living. Others are fleeing persecution in their native countries. By living and working in the U.S. without legal status, millions of immigrants risk deportation and imprisonment. They are living underground, with little protection from exploitation at the hands of human smugglers, employers, or law enforcement. Underground America presents the remarkable oral histories of men and women struggling to carve a life for themselves in the U.S. For moreinformation, see Download underground20america1.txt
ANTONIO’S GUN AND DELFINO’S DREAM: True Tales of Mexican Migration (Univ. of New Mexico Press; ISBN: 0826-34-2558; www.samquinones.com). ANTONIO’S GUN includes stories on the history of velvet painting on the border; the story of the Tomato King who returned to Mexico to run for mayor of his hometown; the crazy goings-on at the city of South Gate; the emergence of opera in Tijuana. The longest chapter is about a soccer season in Southwest Kansas, and meatpacking in the heartland. It ends with a harrowing trip through the drug-smuggling world of Old Colony German Mennonites in northern Mexico. Through it all is the story of Delfino Juarez, a modern-day Huckleberry Finn, who had to leave his village to change it. The SF Chronicle called the book “genuinely original work, what great fiction and nonfiction aspires to be, these are stories that stop time and remind us how great reading is.” To order, click here: http://www.unmpress.com/Book.php?id=11498003926438
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