All the Agents and Saints, Paperback Edition
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All the Agents and Saints, Paperback Edition

Dispatches from the U.S. Borderlands

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All the Agents and Saints, Paperback Edition

Dispatches from the U.S. Borderlands

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After a decade of chasing stories around the globe, intrepid travel writer Stephanie Elizondo Griest followed the magnetic pull home—only to discover that her native South Texas had been radically transformed in her absence. Ravaged by drug wars and barricaded by an eighteen-foot steel wall, her ancestral land had become the nation's foremost crossing ground for undocumented workers, many of whom perished along the way. The frequency of these tragedies seemed like a terrible coincidence until Elizondo Griest moved to the New York–Canada borderlands. Once she began to meet Mohawks from the Akwesasne Nation, she recognized striking parallels to life on the southern border. Having lost their land through devious treaties, their mother tongues at English-only schools, and their traditional occupations through capitalist ventures, Tejanos and Mohawks alike struggle under the legacy of colonialism. Toxic industries surround their neighborhoods, while the U.S. Border Patrol militarizes them. Combating these forces are legions of artists and activists devoted to preserving their indigenous cultures. Complex belief systems, meanwhile, conjure miracles. In All the Agents and Saints, Elizondo Griest weaves seven years of stories into a meditation on the existential impact of international borderlines by illuminating the spaces in between and the people who live there. This edition features a new preface by the author.

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Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
Year
2019
ISBN
9781469659251
Edition
2
Topic
Personal Development
Subtopic
Travel

Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Praise for All the Agents and Saints
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Maps
  8. Preface to the Paperback Edition
  9. Introduction. The Descendants
  10. Prologue. Nepantla
  11. Part I. The Texas-Mexico Borderlands
  12. Part II. The New York–Canada Borderlands
  13. Epilogue. The United States of In-between
  14. Acknowledgments
  15. Notes
  16. About the Author
  17. Back Cover