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¡Calexico!
2011 book by Peter Laufer
2011 book by Peter Laufer
| Field | Value | |
|---|---|---|
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| name | ¡Calexico! True Lives of the Borderlands | |
| image | Peter Laufer - Calexico True Lives of the Borderlands.jpeg | |
| author | Peter Laufer | |
| subject | Mexico–United States border | |
| publisher | University of Arizona Press | |
| pub_date | 1 September 2011 | |
| media_type | Print (Hardcover) | |
| pages | 248 pp | |
| isbn | 978-0-8165-2951-3 | |
| oclc | 703623730 | |
| dewey | 979.4/99 | |
| congress | F869.C14 L38 2011 |
Overview
¡Calexico! covers the events that Peter Laufer watches occur over one week spent in Calexico, California. Calexico and its adjacent sister city Mexicali are two cities that lie on the Mexico–California border. (Both the cities' names are portmanteaus of Mexico and California.) Laufer asks citizens of Calexico what draws them to border towns like Calexico and Mexicali, how they feel about border security and fences that may, at some point in the future, run through their very backyards, if "English-only" is a realistic policy, why some towns on the border have flourished while others have declined, and what it means to be Mexican or American in a place on the border.
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