El Paso : five families and one hundred years of blood, migration, race, and memory / Jazmine Ulloa.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ulloa, Jazmine, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mexican Americans.

Hispanic Americans.

El Paso (Tex.)--History.

El Paso (Tex.).

Mexican-American Border Region--History.

Mexican-American Border Region.

Physical Description:

viii, 337 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, [2026]

Summary:

"From New York Times reporter Jazmine Ulloa, a sweeping human history of El Paso, revealing violence, power, and privilege at play in America's most famous border town. El Paso has been called the "Ellis Island" of America's southern border, a mountain pass cum border town cum bifurcated metropolis where past meets future, and disadvantage meets opportunity, or so the promise goes. El Paso is an extraordinary, can't-look-away reported history; it uses deep research and dozens of new interviews to blow away the myth of this place, where Mexico's Juarez and America's El Paso intertwine. It charts the history of El Paso through five families. From the Mexican Revolution and the Mexican Repatriation, to the shifting immigration laws under Reagan and Trump and the violence and bloodshed brought on by the drug war, El Paso captures a place often misunderstood or forgotten by the rest of the country, and the world. El Paso is a brave new work of narrative nonfiction that gives new voice and perspective to history that has long been checked at the border, or told through the lens of white men alone. Ulloa draws upon meticulous research and reporting and stunning historical detail to craft the intimate narratives of an unforgettable cast of characters"-- Provided by publisher

Contents:

Prologue: From the halls of Montezuma

Part One: Rebellion and resistance. Amazing grace

The most dangerous girl in Mexico

Revolt in the borderland

Pancho Villa's teen soldier

The year of hunger

Of lice and villistas

All Mexicans must go

The search for Victoria

Part Two: The business of drugs and war. Homegrown terror

The silence in Chuco town

American dreamer

The deportation machine

Young fronterizos

Hold the line

Mexicans in exile

Children of the uprising

Part Three: Borders and bridges. Pink and white crosses

Feliz Viaje

El Paso, U.S.A.

Oasis in the desert

The forgetting

The new Ellis Island

Epilogue: A new day

Acknowledgments

Works cited

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-320) and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Ulloa, Jazmine. El Paso.

ISBN:

9780593471869

0593471865

OCLC:

1533179413