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Mongrels, Bastards,
Orphans, and Vagabonds: Mexican Immigration and the Future of Race
in America by Gregory Rodriguez
Book
Discussion Leader: Michelle Jarman, Assistant Professor, Wyo
Institute for Disabilities
Thursday, April 10 -
ECTL Coe 307
3:00 - 4:30 pm (light snacks provided) |
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The Ellbogen Center for Teaching and
Learning is pleased to sponsor this book discussion following the
12th Annual Shepherd Symposium held March 26-28. Free books will
be given to the first 20 registered participants.
In her Washington Post book review
of November 7, 2007, Pamela Constable writes,
“ . . . Gregory Rodriguez's Mongrels, Bastards, Orphans, and
Vagabonds provides a fascinating excursion through the history of
Mexican immigrants in the United States. Full of instructive revelations
and forgotten facts, the book shows how the treatment and status of
immigrants have always been hostage to the vicissitudes of history—from
the Gold Rush to the invasion of Iraq. The best sections of this book by
a Mexican American columnist for the Los Angeles Times cover
events that occurred long ago. But by putting the current tensions in a
solid historical context, Rodriguez offers hope that they too will
eventually subside and be followed by a cooler spell in which a lasting,
more rational solution can prevail over the politics of fear and
bigotry.”
For the complete book review go to:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/01/AR2007110102244_pf.html |