Calexico True Lives of the Borderlands

Informationen zum Autor Peter Laufer, PhD, is an independent journalist, broadcaster and documentary filmmaker working in traditional and new media. He holds the James Wallace Chair in Journalism at the University of Oregon School of Journalism and Communication. Klappentext Chronicles day-to-day life on the US-Mexico border. This wide-ranging, interview-driven book finds Peter Laufer on a week long road trip through the Imperial Valley and other border locales, engaging in earnest and revealing conversations with the people he meets along the way. Laufer talks to secretaries and politicians, restaurateurs and salsa dancers, poets and real estate agents about the issues that matter to them the most. Zusammenfassung Calexico creates a new border narrative and an authoritative blueprint for change. Through interviews! on-the-scene reporting! and historical analysis! Calexico contextualizes the region as emblematic of the immigration issues facing California and the nation while spotlighting the little-known unique individuality of the U.S.-Mexico borderlands.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Peter Laufer, PhD, is an independent journalist, broadcaster and documentary filmmaker working in traditional and new media. He holds the James Wallace Chair in Journalism at the University of Oregon School of Journalism and Communication.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Peter Laufer, Peter Laufter
• Verlag: The University of Arizona Press
• Inhalt: Buch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 01.09.2011
• Thema: Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Soziologie > Soziologische Theorien; Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Geschichte > Regional- und Ländergeschichte
• EAN: 9780816529513
• ISBN: 978-0-8165-2951-3
• Anzahl Seiten: 248
• Themen: Sociology; TRAVEL / Essays & Travelogues; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / American / Hispanic & Latino Studies