All the Agents and Saints, Paperback Edition (eBook)

Dispatches from the U.S. Borderlands

Stephanie Elizondo Griest (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2019 | 2., Paperback Edition, with a new preface by the author
320 Seiten
The University of North Carolina Press (Verlag)
9781469659251 (ISBN)

Infos

After a decade of chasing stories around the globe, intrepid travel writer Stephanie Elizondo Griest followed the magnetic pull homeonly to discover that her native South Texas had been radically transformed in her absence. Ravaged by drug wars and barricaded by an eighteen-foot steel wall, her ancestral land had become the nations foremost crossing ground for undocumented workers, many of whom perished along the way. The frequency of these tragedies seemed like a terrible coincidence until Elizondo Griest moved to the New YorkCanada borderlands. Once she began to meet Mohawks from the Akwesasne Nation, she recognized striking parallels to life on the southern border. Having lost their land through devious treaties, their mother tongues at English-only schools, and their traditional occupations through capitalist ventures, Tejanos and Mohawks alike struggle under the legacy of colonialism. Toxic industries surround their neighborhoods, while the U.S. Border Patrol militarizes them. Combating these forces are legions of artists and activists devoted to preserving their indigenous cultures. Complex belief systems, meanwhile, conjure miracles. In All the Agents and Saints, Elizondo Griest weaves seven years of stories into a meditation on the existential impact of international borderlines by illuminating the spaces in between and the people who live there. This edition features a new preface by the author.

Autor

Stephanie Elizondo Griest is author of the award-winning memoirs Around the Bloc and Mexican Enough and associate professor of creative nonfiction at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Visit her website at StephanieElizondoGriest.com.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 27.11.2019
• Zusatzinfo: 3 maps
• Verlagsort: Chapel Hill
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Reisen ► Reiseberichte
• Themenwelt: Reisen ► Reiseführer
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften
• Schlagworte: biracial identity • border death in the Texas-Mexico borderlands • bridge crossing at the Mohawk Nation of Akwesasne • Canada Border Services Agency vs. Mohawk Nation • Canton, New York • Casino War at the Mohawk Nation of Akwesasne • Chicana Feminism • cigarette trade at the Mohawk Nation of Akwesasne • Cornwall, Canada • Corpus Christi, Texas • crisis at Oka • cult of La Virgen de Guadalupe in the borderlands • cult of Saint Kateri Tekakwitha and Mohawk Indians • drug trafficking in the borderlands • environmental justice in the borderlands • existential identity crisis • Falfurrias, Texas • Haudenosaunee citizenship • Haudenosaunee traditionalism • illegal immigration in the U.S. Mexico borderlands • Iroquois factionalism • Kingsville, Texas • Memoir of Chicana/o identity • Memoir of Latina/o identity • Memoir of Mexican American identity • Memoir of Tejana/o identity • Mohawk identity • Mohawk Nation of Akwesasne • Mohawk Nation of Kahnawake • Mother Julia Navarrete • Native American Identity • New York/Canada borderland • North Country • smuggling in the Mohawk Nation of Akwesasne • social justice in the borderlands • sovereignty in the Haudenosaunee Confederacy • sovereignty in the Iroquois Confederacy • sovereignty of the Mohawk Nation of Akwesasne • spirituality in the borderlands • St. Regis Mohawk Tribe • Superfund sites in the borderlands • Tejana feminism • Tejana spirituality • U.S. • U.S./ • U.S. Border Patrol activities in South Texas • U.S. Border Patrol vs. Mohawk Nation • U.S./Canada borderland • U.S./Mexico border wall
• ISBN-13: 9781469659251 / 9781469659251