The haunting of the Mexican border : a woman's journey / Kathryn Ferguson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ferguson, Kathryn.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ferguson, Kathryn--Travel--Mexican-American Border Region.

Ferguson, Kathryn.

Travel.

Mexican-American Border Region--Description and travel.

Mexican-American Border Region.

Mexican-American Border Region--Social life and customs.

Manners and customs.

North America--Mexican-American Border Region.

Physical Description:

xii, 228 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2015.

Summary:

The Haunting of the Mexican Border is a woman's view of the violence and generosity of the border. For fifteen years beginning in the 1980s, Kathryn Ferguson made documentary films in Mexico's Sierra Madre. As she traveled south, she encountered people who were traveling north, and she learned that the border at which they converged was deadly. And from coffee in her kitchen to her day in federal court, she learned how US immigration policies erode the lives of ordinary citizens. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part I. Sierra Madre trails: hunting

Guns and Gershwin

Job

Into Mexico

Movies

Mexican Navy

Trails

Norogachic

In a handshake

Scouting

Filming the festival

Ventura's home

The unholy Tarahumara

Part II. Arizona trails: hunted

Al otro lado

Water

Spider web

Chasing Rita

International

Phone call

Detained

Three times a charm

Crossing

Moat

And now.

ISBN:

9780826340580

082634058X

OCLC:

907056287