Roll Down Your Window Juan Gonzalez

Name: Roll Down Your Window By Juan Gonzalez
SKU: 9780860916932
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Roll Down Your Window by Juan Gonzalez

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Summary

This study emphasizes increasingly important contributions of Latino culture and labour in the USA. In reports from Puerto Rico, Panama, Haiti, Honduras and Mexico, the author traces the sources of Latino influence, revealing the social and economic pressures that drive people north.

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Roll Down Your Window: Stories from a Forgotten America by Juan Gonzalez

New York Daily News reporter Juan Gonzalez takes as his beat the streets and projects of America's inner cities and the barrios across its southern borders. In these vivid dispatches he reports from the frontline of a social crisis - inside New York and Los Angeles, across the Rio Grande to Mexico's maquliadoras, throught to Haiti, Honduras and Cuba.

Roll Down Your Window Reviews

Gonzalez gives voice to those whose views are neither often heard nor well understood ... his stories need to be told. - New York Times Book Review These vignettes from the political frontline make most contemporary reportage look utterly complacent... Unapologetically passionate, committed journalism. -- Time Out Reading Roll Down Your Window is like being shoved into a cold, bracing shower... Gonzalez challenges everyone to wake up and smell the misinformation. -- LA Weekly Compassionate and impassioned. - The San Francisco Bay Guardian The best of American journalism. -- Financial Times This book deserves un abrazo grande - Pete Hamill

About Juan Gonzalez

Juan Gonzalez was born in Puerto Rico and grew up in New York City. He was a founding member of the Young Lords Party and was President of the National Congress for Puerto Rican Rights. He is currently a columnist for the New York Daily News.

Additional information

Sku

GOR003098755

ISBN 13

9780860916932

ISBN 10

0860916936

Title

Roll Down Your Window: Stories from a Forgotten America by Juan Gonzalez

Author

Juan Gonzalez

Condition

Used - Very Good

Binding type

Paperback

Publisher

Verso Books

Year published

19961004

Number of pages

230

Prizes

N/A

Cover note

Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.

Note

This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. Overall we expect it to be in very good condition, but if you are not entirely satisfied please get in touch with us