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UCSB READS
2010 Theme: Beyond borders: the human experience.
Change begins with learning . . .
The following is a list of selected resources on immigration that can be found in the UCSB Library by the call number listed. Multiple copies of many titles can also be found in the Santa Barbara Public Library System. And check Santa Barbara City College's Luria Library for books on immigration, including many e-books.
Also, check out the Study Guide [pdf] for Enrique's Journey from the publisher.
Books
- Cannato, Vincent J., American passage: the history of Ellis Island. New York: Harper, 2009.
Main Library JV6484 .C366 2009
- Cowart, David, Trailing clouds: immigrant fiction in contemporary America. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2006.
Main Library PS374.I48 C69 2006
- Daniels, Roger, Coming to America: a history of immigration and ethnicity in American life. New York, NY: Perennial, 2002.
Main Library E184.A1 D26 2002
"UCSB Reads" selection: - Nazario, Sonia. Enrique's Journey: The Story of a Boy's Dangerous Odyssey to Reunite with his Mother.
New York: Random House, 2006.
Colección Tloque Nahuaque E184.H66 N397 2006
Also available from the Santa Barbara Public Library System
Also available at a 25% discount at the UCSB Bookstore
Original story from the Los Angeles Times (via Pulitzer.org)
Enrique's Journey official website
- Seller, Maxine Schwartz, Immigrant women. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1994.
Women's Studies HQ1410 .I43 1994
- Suárez-Orozco, Carola, Learning a new land: immigrant students in American society. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of
Harvard University Press, 2008.
Main Library LC3746 .S83 2008
- Urrea, Luis Alberto, The devil's highway: a true story. New York: Little, Brown, 2004.
Colección Tloque Nahuaque JV6475 .U77 2004
Videos
- Border. [California]: Little Bonanza Productions: Max Ink Productions, 2005.
Media Collection JV6483 .B67 2005
"An investigative documentary on the state of our southern border with Mexico. Disatisfied with second-hand media coverage, Burgard and his camera team journeyed down to the U.S. Mexican border and, over a period of several months, interviewed Border Patrol agents, illegal immigrants, Minutemen, politicians, representatives of the ACLU and local ranchers to make a realistic assessment of just how porous our border had become."
- Crosses Cruces. New York, NY: Distributed by Latin American Video Archives, 2002.
Media Collection JV6483 .C76 2002
". . . documents the efforts of artists and activists to bring the disastrous effects of Operation Gatekeeper to the conscience of the people of both the U.S. and Mexico, and to pressure the governments of both countries to make efforts to find a more humane way to deal with the question of migration. In the last few years, these activists and artists have reclaimed the wall that divides the border as a backdrop for art dramatizing the plight of the migrants. In several of these projects, every death is represented by a cross bearing the name of the victim--in many cases, there is nothing to write except ’not identified.’ These installations, mounted directly on the wall, serve simultaneously as objects of tremendous aesthetic power, as a cry of protest to the U.S. and Mexican governments, as a call to the public, as a warning to would-be migrants, and as a poignant memorial so that the striving dreams of the migrants’ lives and the needless tragedy of their deaths not be forgotten."
- Crossing Arizona. New York, NY: Cinema Guild, 2006
Media Collection JV6912 .C76 2006
"With heightened U.S. security along the California, Texas, and New Mexico borders, each day thousands of migrants attempting to enter the United States are being diverted into the treacherous terrain of Arizona’s brutal desert. The perilous journey, which can take up to four days, has caused a dramatic rise in the number of migrant deaths. Those who make it through--the undocumented immigrants who live and work in the U.S.--invoke a wide range of impassioned responses over human rights, culture, race, class, and national security. Seen through the eyes of frustrated ranchers, border patrol agents, local politicians, farmers dependent on an illegal work force, seasoned humanitarian activists, desperate migrants preparing for their journey north, and the Minutemen who have become darlings of the national media, this documentary unveils the complicated dilemmas presented by the border crisis and the surprising political stances people take when immigration and border policy fails everyone, on all fronts"
- El Norte / The North. [Los Angeles, Calif.?]: Frontera Films, 2002?
Media Collection PN1997 .N54855 2002
"A brother and sister, two young Indians from Guatemala, set out to find a better life when their father is killed by government soldiers and their mother is taken away. Their journey to the north, the 'promised land,' is frought with dangers and when they reach Los Angeles they are 'illegals' submerged in an alien culture."
- On the fringes. [United States]: Hundred Feet of Film, 2003.
Media Collection F127.W5 O5 2003
"In this film Westchester’s immigrant subculture is given faces and voices, and explained by the migrants themselves. Young men and women from Ecuador, Columbia, Mexico, Guatamala. The nannies, day laborers, landscapers, housekeepers--legal and illegal--all servicing the wealth in New York suburbia. Why they are here, what they hope for in this country, how they live, and what their lives are like in Anglo society, are issues this film deals with."
- Walking the line. New York: Filmakers Library, 2006.
Media Collection HD8081.M6 W35 2006
"Southern Arizona, a region celebrated for its history of lawlessness, has become the most highly trafficked area for immigrants in the world--and one of the most dangerous. A shift in the border policy forces migrants to cross the unforgiving desert where thousands die. Those who make it across face volatile, often armed, civilian militias. Standing in opposition to the vigilantes are humanitarians, organized to prevent migrant deaths. Confronting the growing crisis, they too find themselves on the wrong side of the law... the film explores the uncertain line between what is patriotic, what is moral, and what is just."
- Wetback: the undocumented documentary. Los Angeles, CA: Ironweed Film Club, 2005.
Reserve Book Service, Media Shelf JV6465 .W48 2006
"Wetback tells the real story of immigration to the United States. Filmmaker Arturo Perez Torres follows in the footsteps of two friends traveling over land from Nicaragua, across multiple borders to the US. On their journeys, they encounter merciless gangs and vigilantes, as well as border patrol. But these immigrants navigate real-life nightmares with uncanny calm, grace, even humor."
Books for K-12 Teachers
California K-12 public school teachers are eligible for a free library card. Bring a memo from your principal and a photo ID.
Children's Books and Videos
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Web Sites
- Enrique's Journey official website
- Migrations in History
The Smithsonian Center for Education and Museum Studies hosts a site about migrations of people, objects, culture, and ideas. According to the site, it features "the stories and artifacts of migration--what happens when people move, what they take with them, what they leave behind, and how they make their new place home." The different people highlighted are from each continent, pioneers, explorers, and nomadic people. Some specific peoples include the Romani and Rastafarians.
- Strangers in the Land of Strangers
An online exhibit from the Pennsylvania Historical Society looks at the ways different groups of immigrants have tried to prove that they belong, often in the face of harassment from earlier arrivals. The exhibit covers the period from the revolutionary era to the present. African Americans and recently arrived Irish were promised citizenship if they fought in the Civil War, although that promise wasn't always kept. During the World Wars, German immigrants were compelled to renounce their cultures to prove their "Americanism". African Americans and women are noted as challenging their second-class citizenship in the latter half of the 20th century.
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