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Book SynopsisWhen we finally arrived at my brother's house in the United States, I thought about how far I was from home in Mexico. I looked back, saw the sun setting, and thought about my father and what he might be doing. I thought, 'Why did I come so far, and...
Trade Review"Communities without Borders is a beautiful and powerful, but disturbing book. The two forwards, written by Carlos Muñoz Jr. and Douglas Harper, focused, respectively, on the book's text and photographs, nicely frame Bacon's twin achievements resulting from the more than three years of fieldwork he began in 2000. He has poignantly captured through prose and image the stark beauty, fierce determination, and pride of U.S./Mexico/Guatemala transnational communities and the ravages of exploitation wrought upon them." -- W. Warner Wood, Anthropology of Work Review
"David Bacon demonstrates remarkable breadth, insight, and creativity through his diverse documentary photography, oral history, and writing. The story he tells of migration communities—and the stories he lets those communities tell through their own eloquent words, on their own terms—is one of universal importance grounded in the specifics of a range of experiences. This book stands as a model for careful and responsible documentary work and provides much-needed depth and nuance to one of the central issues of our time." -- Tom Rankin, Director, Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University
"David Bacon is a nonfiction Steinbeck, the foremost documentarist of the great human drama of the borderlands." -- Mike Davis, author of Planet of Slums
"Longtime labor organizer and talented photojournalist Bacon presents this loving tribute to Latin American labor migrants to the United States, in their own words. These migrants, Bacon effectively reminds readers, are individuals struggling to survive and support families and communities, not mere stats, legal problems, or political controversies. Highly recommended." -- Choice, October 2007
