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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Homelands
    sub title: four friends, two countries, and the fate of the great Mexican-American migration
  name:
    name part: Corchado, Alfredo
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: biography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2018
    copyright date: 2018
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: x, 293 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
  abstract: When Alfredo Corchado moved to Philadelphia in 1987, he felt as if he was the only Mexican in the city. But in a restaurant called Tequilas, he connected with two other Mexican men and one Mexican American, all feeling similarly isolated. Over the next three decades, the four friends continued to meet, coming together over their shared Mexican roots and their love of tequila. One was a radical activist, another a restaurant/tequila entrepreneur, the third a lawyer/politician. Alfredo himself was a young reporter for the Wall Street Journal. Homelands merges the political and the personal, telling the story of the last great Mexican migration through the eyes of four friends at a time when the Mexican population in the United States swelled from 700,000 people during the 1970s to more than 35 million people today. It is the narrative of the United States in a painful economic and political transition. As we move into a divisive, nativist new era of immigration politics, Homelands is a must-read to understand the past and future of the immigrant story in the United States, and the role of Mexicans in shaping America's history. A deeply moving book full of colorful characters searching for home, it is essential reading.
  table of contents: Prologue: One wintry night at Tequilas -- I. Leaving home -- El Pajarito & Superwoman in El Norte -- David, un caminero in Philly -- Ken, Barbie & Brooks Brothers -- Primo, the mystery man -- Crawling out of the shadows -- II. The giant IRCA awakening -- Freddy's Café -- A fickle nation -- The rebuilding of America -- Farewell, Philadelphia -- III. Malinche's children -- Marriage of convenience -- Homeward bound -- Tequila midnight in Guadalajara -- Trapped in the U.S., no going back -- IV. Uneasy neighbors -- Heartache heartland -- Havana calling, Santana's guitar -- The fallout -- V. Homeless -- The blame game -- Sister Guadalupe's unusual spirit -- Middleman, Siembra's rise -- Hardening the line -- VI. Homelands -- Walls -- The Pope in a nativist land -- Thirtieth aniversario, the celebration -- Arcadio's legacy -- Lessons from Israel -- The wisdom of Doña Lidia -- Tío Alejo's funeral -- Uncle Bill -- Four friends, Philadelphia reunion -- My homelands.
  note: Alfredo Corchado.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
    geographic code: n-us-pa
    geographic code: n-mx---
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Corchado, Alfredo
    topic: Friends and associates
  subject:
    topic: Mexicans
    geographic: United States
    topic: Social conditions
  subject:
    topic: Mexican Americans
    topic: Social conditions
  subject:
    topic: Mexicans
    geographic: Pennsylvania
    geographic: Philadelphia
    topic: Social conditions
  subject:
    topic: Mexican Americans
    geographic: Pennsylvania
    geographic: Philadelphia
    topic: Social conditions
  subject:
    geographic: United States
    topic: Emigration and immigration
    topic: Social aspects
  subject:
    geographic: Mexico
    topic: Emigration and immigration
    topic: Social aspects
  subject:
    geographic: Philadelphia (Pa.)
    topic: Emigration and immigration
    topic: Social aspects
  subject:
    topic: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration
  subject:
    topic: HISTORY / Latin America / Mexico
  subject:
    topic: POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Immigration
  subject:
    topic: HISTORY / Social History
  classification: E184.M5 C67 2018
  classification: 973/.046872
  identifier: 9781632865540
  identifier: 1632865548
  identifier: 9781632865564
  identifier: 2017046794
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 180119
    record change date: 20181023092914.0
    record identifier: in00003999202