• Borderlands and the Mexican American Story (Race to the Truth)

Borderlands and the Mexican American Story
(Race to the Truth)

Publication Date
August 20, 2024
Genre / Grade Band
Fiction /  6th − 8th
Language
English
Borderlands and the Mexican American Story (Race to the Truth)

Description
Until now, you've only heard one side of the story, about migrants crossing borders, drawn to the promise of a better life. In reality, Mexicans were on this land long before any borders existed. Here's the true story of America, from the Mexican American perspective.

The Mexican American story is usually carefully presented as a story of immigrants: migrants crossing borders, drawn to the promise of a better life. In reality, Mexicans were on this land long before any borders existed. Their culture and practices shaped the Southwestern part of this country, in spite of relentless attempts by white colonizers and settlers to erase them.

From missions and the Alamo to muralists, revolutionaries, and teen activists, this is the true story of the Mexican American experience.


The Race to the Truth series tells the true history of America from the perspective of different communities. These books correct common falsehoods and celebrate underrepresented heroes and achievements. They encourage readers to ask questions and to approach new information thoughtfully. Check out the other books in the series: Colonization and the Wampanoag StorySlavery and the African American Story, and Exclusion and the Chinese American Story.
Publication date
August 20, 2024
Genre
Fiction
ISBN-13
9780593567753
Lexile Measure
1090
Publisher
Crown Books for Young Readers
Series
Race to the Truth
BISAC categories
JUV000000 - Juvenile Fiction | General
Library of Congress categories
History
United States
Mexico
Social conditions
Race relations
Emigration and immigration
Mexican Americans
Mexican-American Border Region

ALA/Booklist

[An] insightful overview of Mexican American history.

Kirkus

Starred Review

A powerful must-read for students of North American history.


David Dorado Romo
David Dorado Romo is a writer, translator, musician, and historian from the American southwest. He is a "fronterizo," a person who grew up and lived on the border between the United States and Mexico. Steeped in the fronterizo spirit that strongly defines the attitudes of the U.S.-Mexico border region, Romo conducted a four-year search to document the important history of the area. The book that resulted from his work, Ringside Seat to a Revolution: An Underground Cultural History of El Paso and Juarez, 1893-1923, "is a vital historical work for the Southwest," commented Sergio Troncoso in the El Paso Times.
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