On the southern edge of America a diverse group of people lead ordinary lives in rather extraordinary circumstances. Mexican Americans, Anglos, and Mexican nationals meet there, in the subtropical beauty of the Rio Grande Valley and amid conditions of extreme poverty and social inequality, and create a distinctive blend of cultures, languages, and attitudes toward life. The stories that emerge are stories of individual victories, daily standoffs, and brutalizing defeats. Writer-sociologist Robert Lee Maril tells some of ...
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On the southern edge of America a diverse group of people lead ordinary lives in rather extraordinary circumstances. Mexican Americans, Anglos, and Mexican nationals meet there, in the subtropical beauty of the Rio Grande Valley and amid conditions of extreme poverty and social inequality, and create a distinctive blend of cultures, languages, and attitudes toward life. The stories that emerge are stories of individual victories, daily standoffs, and brutalizing defeats. Writer-sociologist Robert Lee Maril tells some of these stories, observed and absorbed during the thirteen years he lived and taught in the Lower Rio Grande Valley. In those years, he grew used to the limpid heat, the smell of possum sweating in the moonlight outside his bedroom window, the young men studying to become gasoline mechanics, and the young women walking across the stage as the first in their families to graduate from college. The stories he tells are vivid and affecting, filled with palm fronds groaning in a burning wind, bulging pink gecko eyes under the porch light, Mando's karate academy, professors who study rocks and flies, and the small but important victories of junior high students whose families do not speak English. They are stories that recognize the forces at work in people's lives which are beyond their control, but also the qualities of courage, humor, resignation, and sometimes despair that translate those forces in the crucibles of individual lives into unique experiences. The warm, personal accounts that make up this book give a vivid impression of what it is to live in one of the poorest but most intriguing regions of the United States, a region that has much to teach about America's present and future.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. AO3-A first edition first printing hardcover book in very good condition in very good dust jacket that is mylar protected. Dust jacket and book have some bumped corners, light discoloration and shelf wear. The warm, personal accounts that make up this book give a vivid impression of what it is to live in one of the poorest but most intriguing regions of the United States, a region that has much to teach about America's present and future. 8.75"x5.75", 180 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed.
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As New in As New jacket. AE-A hardcover book in as new condition in as new dust jacket that is still in shrink wrap. The warm, personal accounts that make up this book give a vivid impression of what it is to live in one of the poorest but most intriguing regions of the United States, a region that has much to teach about America's present and future. 8.75"x5.75", 180 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed.
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Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. Book. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Mexican-Americans, Anglos, and Mexican nationals meet in the subtropical beauty of the Rio Grande Valley amid conditions of extreme poverty and social inequality and create a distinctive blend of cultures, languages, and attitudes toward life. Hardcover, xiv, 180 pp., unclipped jacket. Previous owner's name stamped in small letters on front free endpaper, otherwise minimal wear, clean text, tight binding, nice jacket.
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Very Good+ in Very Good jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. 180 pp. Tight, crisp and bright copy with minor corner and spine end wear. Fore edge has small blue mark which extends to flap fold of dust jacket. Spine of dust jacket has sun fading. Light rubbing and edgewear.
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Good. 2006. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Num Pages: 194 pages. BIC Classification: JHMC; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 224 x 149 x 21. Weight in Grams: 449. 180pp. Keywords: "Government & Politics, Social & Cultural, Social Issues, Multicultural Studies". Not a first edition copy.....We ship daily from our Bookshop.
