ON IMMIGRATION: PETER SCHRAG (Not Fit for Our Society) & TYCHE HENDRICKS (The Wind Doesn't Need a Passport
Peter Schrag's Not Fit for Our Society: Nativism and Immigration is a book of deep and
telling ironies. Peter provides essential background for understanding the
fractious debate over immigration. Covering the earliest days of the Republic
to current events, Schrag sets the modern immigration
controversy within the context of three centuries of debate over the same
questions about who exactly is fit for citizenship.
Tyche Hendricks' The Wind Doesn't Need a Passport: Stories
from the U.S.-Mexico Border
is also a look at immigration. Award-winning journalist Tyche
Hendricks has explored the U.S.-Mexico borderlands by car and by foot, on
horseback, and in the back of a pickup truck. She has shared meals with border
residents, listened to their stories, and visited their homes, churches,
hospitals, farms, and jails. In this dazzling portrait of one of the least understood
and most debated regions in the country, Hendricks introduces us to the
ordinary Americans and Mexicans who live there—cowboys and Indians, factory
workers and physicians, naturalists and nuns.
Peter Schrag, for many years the editorial page editor
and later a weekly columnist for the Sacramento Bee, currently
contributes to The Nation, Harper's, The
Tyche Hendricks is a reporter who spent a dozen years at the San Francisco Chronicle where she covered immigration and demographics. She is a lecturer at the Graduate School of Journalism at the UC Berkeley.
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