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Bezig met laden... Mexifornia: A State of Becoming (origineel 2003; editie 2007)door Victor Davis Hanson
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. I had to return this book to the library when we moved out of town, and I didn't have time to finish the last 1 1/2 chapters. VDH is a farmer/classics scholar/political commentator born, raised, and still living and farming in California's Central Valley. He has very definite opinions (and a lifetime of firsthand observations) about how elements on both sides of the illegal immigration debate have contributed to the present mess. Unfortunately, I had to stop reading just as I was getting to what he sees as plausible solutions. Still, very interesting. Note to self: Look for 2nd edition next time. In most ways this is the author's most amusing and ironic work. Also, it is the most personal of his many fine efforts. He speaks as a classics professor, farmer, and resident of the Central Valley of California. He correctly laments the racial policies that are leading to the failure of the next generation of California residents. https://www.city-journal.org/html/mexifornia-five-years-later-12987.html http://www.thesocialcontract.com/artman2/publish/tsc1401/article_1190.shtml https://www.c-span.org/video/?177866-1/mexifornia-state-becoming&start=32 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CnDBjtFDcFQ geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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Part history, part political analysis, and part memoir, Mexifornia is an intensely personal work by one of our most important writers. Victor Davis Hanson, known for his military histories and his social commentary, is a fifth-generation Californian who lives on a family farm in the Central Valley and has written eloquent elegies on the decline of agrarianism, Fields Without Dreams and The Land Was Everything. Here too, he ponders what has changed in California over the past quarter century, examining how the state and the Southwest more broadly--indeed, the entire nation--have been altered by hemorrhaging borders. Hanson admires the ambition and vigor of immigrants who have helped make California strong, but he indicts the disordered immigration policies that led to the present mess. He also illuminates the ways those policies are harmful to people who have come from Mexico and Central America seeking a better life in the United States. Nearly twenty years after the first publication of Mexifornia, Hanson offers an update on the continuing tragedy of illegal immigration. At the same time, he remains hopeful that our traditions of integration, assimilation, and intermarriage may yet remedy a predicament created by politicians and ideologues. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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The racist accusation should be assuaged with the introduction if one is a reasonable human being. This author deals with illegal immigration in the most sensitive manner I've ever seen, likely because he lives and works in the area and with many immigrants, legal and not. ( )