Homelands : four friends, two countries, and the fate of the great Mexican-American migration
Corchado, Alfredo2018
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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.
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New York : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2018.
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x, 292 pages : illustration (black and white) ; 25 cm
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9781632865540 (hbk)
Dewey class:
304.8'73'072304.873072
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English
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2632062
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