El Paso: Five Families and One Hundred Years of Blood, Migration, Race, and Memory

Description

From New York Times reporter Jazmine Ulloa, a sweeping human history of El Paso, revealing violence, power, and privilege at play in America’s most famous border town.

El Paso has been called the “Ellis Island” of America’s southern border, a mountain pass cum border town cum bifurcated metropolis where past meets future, and disadvantage meets opportunity, or so the promise goes.

El Paso is an extraordinary, can’t-look-away reported history; it uses deep research and dozens of new interviews to blow away the myth of this place, where Mexico’s Juarez and America’s El Paso intertwine. It charts the history of El Paso through five families. From the Mexican Revolution and the Mexican Repatriation, to the shifting immigration laws under Reagan and Trump and the violence and bloodshed brought on by the drug war, El Paso captures a place often misunderstood or forgotten by the rest of the country, and the world.

El Paso is a brave new work of narrative nonfiction that gives new voice and perspective to history that has long been checked at the border, or told through the lens of white men alone. Ulloa draws upon meticulous research and reporting and stunning historical detail to craft the intimate narratives of an unforgettable cast of characters.

From the Publisher

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Dutton
Publication date ‏ : ‎ March 3, 2026
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Print length ‏ : ‎ 352 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0593471865
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0593471869
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.1 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.32 x 1.18 x 9.3 inches
Best Sellers Rank: #17,099 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #5 in Emigration & Immigration Studies (Books) #93 in U.S. State & Local History #100 in Sociology Reference
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