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| Title | TRUE TALES FROM ANOTHER MEXICO |
| Body | From: "Anselmo Villanueva" TRUE TALES FROM ANOTHER MEXICO: The Lynch Mob, the Popsicle Kings, Chalino and the Bronx by Sam Quinones http://www.samquinones.com/ One of the best new books on Mexico is TRUE TALES FROM ANOTHER MEXICO: The Lynch Mob, the Popsicle Kings, Chalino and the Bronx. The author is Sam Quinones, a journalist based in Mexico City. The books is a collection of non-fiction stories about contemporary Mexico, several of which deal with immigration and the border. One story is about the Michael Jordan of Oaxacan basketball and how Oaxacan immigrants, Indians mostly, use basketball to maintain community in the United States. Another story is about the houses of a small town in Guanajuato built by immigrants living in the United States. This phenomenon, house-building, is one of the most common among Mexican immigrants, who intend initially to stay a short time in the United States. Teachers who have Mexican and Mexican-American kids in their classes should know about the character in the book's lead chapter, Chalino Sanchez, a singer murdered in 1992, who has become a legend among these kids and within the Mexican immigrant community across the United States. A long chapter deals with the case of the women who've been dying in Ciudad Juarez. Moreover, the book, because it deals with Mexican culture and society, will help educators understand the cultural and social context their Mexican students come from. The book has been quite favorably reviewed in the LA Times, San Francisco Chronicle, San Diego Union-Tribune, the Economist, Library Journal and elsewhere. You can find out more about the book at the author's website, www.samquinones.com The book is available through Amazon.com or through the University of New Mexico Press: 1-800-249-7737 Paperback ISBN is: 0-8263-2296-4 Available from Amazon at http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0826322956/102-0069184-6708944?v=glance |
| Source | Sam Quinones |
| Inputdate | 2003-11-17 12:47:00 |
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