The compelling adventure of a young writer who poses as a Mexican wetback to discover the hardships, fear and camaraderie of illegal aliens crossing the border to work in the United States.
I like books where the author immerses him or herself in a situation and then writes from his or her own experience. Barbara Ehrenreich has done this for several of her books. After my mother was sentenced to jail for civil disobedience, she has a much better understanding of who is in our jails ...
Again and again they dropped, their slow, fluttering fall interrupted only by the shock of a swerve or an occasional pothole. A long stretch of flat road and the bus’s calming drone finally succeeded in closing them completely. Jesús’s jaw relaxed, too, and, mouth open, he slumped down in his sea...
All these beautiful black men in the joint, goddamn warriors, they should be out there helping the masses. And—I was real naive, right?—six weeks I was up there, I talked to the brothers, and I talked to them, and—[in a low, grave voice] thank God we got penitentiaries! I mean, murderers, do you ...