| Coyotes: A Journey Across Borders With America's Mexican Migrants Contributor(s): Conover, Ted (Author) |
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ISBN: 0394755189 ISBN-13: 9780394755182 Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group OUR PRICE: $18.05 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 1987 Annotation: The compelling adventure of a young writer who poses as a Mexican wetback to discover the hardships, fear and camaraderie of illegal aliens crossing the border to work in the United States. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Emigration & Immigration - Political Science | Labor & Industrial Relations - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - Hispanic American Studies |
| Dewey: 331.627 |
| LCCN: 87006101 |
| Series: Vintage Departures |
| Physical Information: 0.62" H x 5.19" W x 8" (0.60 lbs) 288 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - Chicano |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: To discover what becomes of Mexicans who come illegally to the United States, Conover disguised himself as an illegal alien, traveling and working across America for more than a year. This is the chronicle of his journey. "Ted Conover lived the bizarre life of the Mexican illegals. Theirs is a sub-terrestrial world of high-wire tensions, of brutal police, of sinister smugglers . . . A devastating document, this one must be read."--Leon Uris |