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Border Angels : the power of one / by Enrique Morones ; with Richard Griswold del Castillo.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Morones, Enrique, author.
- Standardized Title:
- Power of one
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Morones, Enrique.
- Border Angels (Organization).
- Political activists--Mexican-American Border Region--Biography.
- Political activists.
- Humanitarian assistance--Mexican-American Border Region.
- Humanitarian assistance.
- Noncitizens--Mexican-American Border Region--Social conditions.
- Noncitizens.
- Social conditions.
- Foreign workers, Mexican--Mexican-American Border Region--Social conditions.
- Foreign workers, Mexican.
- Emigration and immigration.
- Social aspects.
- United States--Emigration and immigration--Social aspects.
- United States.
- Mexico--Emigration and immigration--Social aspects.
- Mexico.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 137 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
- Edition:
- Second, corrected, re-titled and expanded edition.
- Place of Publication:
- San Diego, California : San Diego State University Press, 2015.
- Summary:
- "In the American Southwest and its borderlands, no other social justice advocate has made a greater impact on the lives of undocumented workers than Enrique Morones. In The Power of One, Morones tells his own story (with noted Chicano historian Richard Griswold del Castillo) and the result is a book that unfolds as the singular memoir of someone who took the chance to make a difference--a brave activist who, with his organization, the Border Angels, saves the lives of legions of sojourners, brave, desperate travelers who attempt to cross the hot, beautiful, and dangerous deserts that fuse the United States and Mexico."--Back cover.
- Contents:
- Introduction / Richard Griswold del Castillo
- Border stories : the power of one
- Growing up on the border
- Becoming a full-time activist
- The birth of the Border Angels
- Marcha Migrante
- National politics and the Border Angels
- Friendship Park
- Water in the desert
- Immigrants and human rights
- Appendix A. Juana's letter
- Appendix B. Partial list of immigrants who have died crossing the U.S. Mexico border 1994-2007
- Appendix C. Myths and realities about Mexican immigration
- Appendix D. Silent epigraphs
- Postscript.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9781938537905
- 1938537904
- OCLC:
- 930798920
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