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1 online resource (203 pages) |
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Dark Angel -- My Name Is Pedro Infante and He's Jorge Negrete -- Some Nachos to Go -- I Saw How They Raped Her -- The killings Were Commonplace -- All I Thought about Was Disneyland -- We Arrived at the Town of "Thank God" -- A Honeymoon on the Road -- A Discount for Telling the Truth -- The Old Smoocher -- It Scared the Tapeworms Out of Her -- Get Me Down, Before I Slap You Silly! -- He Sold Me to the Armenian -- The Girl from Nicaragua Was Washed Away by the River -- God Made Us Disappear from the Border Patrol -- We Were Short 1,400 Quetzals -- The Shot Hit Right Next to Me -- My Cousins Came over from California -- After All I Had Done for Him ... and He Betrayed Me -- For the Love of My "Princess" -- She Had Just Given Birth -- Dreamers Never Lose Heart -- They're Coming after Us -- Mine Is the Same Story as So Many Other Children -- A Pack of Tortillas Was All We Had to Eat -- Could It Be the Feathers in Our Hats? -- Everyone from the North Shows up Looking "All Fly" -- They Told Me That You Could Make a Lot of Money -- We Landed in France, Not in New York |
| Summary |
"Southern California radio personality, Alicia Alarcon, invited her immigrant listeners to call in and share their stories. In this collection, Alarcon has recorded the footsteps of these travelers across deserts and rivers, as the narrators suffer hunger and hostility on their way to a fabled "America," land of opportunity." "These intriguing but heartbreaking tales are narrated by young and old, men and women who must overcome the nearly impossible as they hope to find a better place than the one they've left behind. Through gritty details and sly humor, these stories are poignant recollections of making it across, past the natural and the man-made obstacles along the border, as well as cries of frustration about the lives they forge once here in the U.S. of A."--Jacket |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Central American Americans -- California -- Biography
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South American Americans -- California -- Biography
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Immigrants -- California -- Biography
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Central American Americans -- California -- Social conditions
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South American Americans -- California -- Social conditions
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Immigrants -- California -- Social conditions
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General.
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Central American Americans
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Emigration and immigration
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Immigrants
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Immigrants -- Social conditions
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South American Americans
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California -- Biography
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Central America -- Emigration and immigration -- Case studies
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South America -- Emigration and immigration -- Case studies
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United States -- Emigration and immigration -- Case studies
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California
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Central America
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South America
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United States
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Biographies
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Case studies
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Alarcón, Alicia, 1953-
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Brammer, Ethriam Cash.
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| LC no. |
2004048530 |
| ISBN |
9781611920741 |
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1611920744 |
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9781611926088 |
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1611926084 |
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