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Crossing over : a Mexican family on the migrant trail

2001

Format:	Book
Author:	Martínez, Rubén.
Title:	Crossing over : a Mexican family on the migrant trail / Ruben Martinez.
Edition:	1st ed.
Publisher, Date:	New York : Metropolitan Books, 2001.
Description:	330 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Summary:	Follows the Chavez family from the small Mexican town of Cheran to the fields of Missouri and California and the slaughterhouses of Wisconsin offering a portrait of immigrant life in the U.S.
Subjects:	Chavez family. Mexican American families -- Social conditions. Mexican Americans -- Biography. Immigrants -- United States -- Social conditions. Immigrants -- United States -- Biography. Migrant labor -- United States. Noncitizens -- United States -- Social conditions. Noncitizens -- United States -- Biography. Illegal immigration -- United States. Noncitizens. Cherán (Mexico) -- Biography.
Genre:	Biographies.
Notes:	Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award, 2002.
Contents:	Prologue: The Passion -- Points of Departure -- Home -- Paisanos -- Family -- Waiting -- Highland Hip Hop -- Fiesta -- Harvest -- Rosa's Journey -- Another Country -- The Line -- Warren, Arkansas -- Princes of Norwalk -- St. Louis, Missouri -- Strawberry Fields Forever.
Web Site:	Sample text Table of contents Contributor biographical information Publisher description
LCCN:	2001030719
ISBN:	0805049088 9780805049084 9780312421236 0312421230
Other Number:	46634038
System Availability:	1
Current Holds:	0
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Control Number:	101175
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Call Number:	306.85 Martinez

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