The Death and Life of Aida Hernandez (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

The Case for Nuance in Immigrant Stories (Review)

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In his new book The Death and Life of Aida Hernandez, Aaron Bobrow-Strain captures why true border stories defy simplicity.  ...
Rethink Everything (Maybe It's Always Been This Way)

Rethink Everything (Maybe It’s Always Been This Way)

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HISTORICALLY THE LEFT--THE WORLD LA- bor and socialist movement of the last hundred years--has always presumed the existence of an ...
Selena performs live on the Johnny Canales Show in 1993. (flickr/hellboy_93)

The Many Afterlives of Selena

Selena Quintanilla-Pérez, the late Tejana popstar, would have turned 47-years-old today. What does her legacy mean in 2018? ...
Juan Manuel Perez, the foreman of the organization Cuenca Los Ojos, walks along a rock gabion wall (Photo by Jeff Smith)

A Tale of Two Walls

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Along a remote stretch of the U.S.-Mexico border, two visions for the climate-changed future are unfolding ...
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Brooks County, Texas, and the Geography of Migrant Deaths

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The number of migrant deaths in Brooks County, in the southern part of Texas, has exploded over the last year ...