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True Tales from Another Mexico

The Lynch Mob, the Popsicle Kings, Chalino, and the Bronx

True Tales from Another Mexico( )
Author: Quinones, Sam
ISBN:978-0-8263-2295-1
Publication Date:Mar 2004
Publisher:University of New Mexico Press
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:USD $29.95
Book Description:

Quinones merges keen observation with astute interviews and storytelling in his search for an authentic modern Mexico. He finds it in part in emigrants, people who use wits and imagination to strike out on their own. In poignant stories from north of the border -- about Oaxacan basketball leagues in southern California and the late singing legend Chalino Sánchez whose songs of drug smugglers spurred the popularity of the narcocorrido -- Quinones shows how another Mexico is reinventing...
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Book Details
Pages:336
Detailed Subjects: Political Science / World / Caribbean & Latin American
Social Science / Sociology / General
Social Science / Customs & Traditions
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):6.24 x 9.165 x 0.406 Inches
Book Weight:1.342 Pounds



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