Roll Down Your Window: Stories from a Forgotten America

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Juan Gonzalez, described by the Village Voice as "the most radical person in the above-it-all world of New York daily journalism," is a reporter who takes as his beat the streets and projects of America's inner cities and the barrios across its southern borders. In these passionate and vivid despatches, he reports from the frontline of a social crisis which stretches from New York to Los Angeles, across the Rio Grande to Mexico's maquiladoras, through to Haiti, Honduras and Cuba. Written not just about the ...
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Overview

Juan Gonzalez, described by the Village Voice as "the most radical person in the above-it-all world of New York daily journalism," is a reporter who takes as his beat the streets and projects of America's inner cities and the barrios across its southern borders. In these passionate and vivid despatches, he reports from the frontline of a social crisis which stretches from New York to Los Angeles, across the Rio Grande to Mexico's maquiladoras, through to Haiti, Honduras and Cuba. Written not just about the ghetto, but from it, Gonzalez's stories portray workers on strike, refugees on the run, owners on the make and a journalist on the case. Together they bring us face to face with "human beings whose tragedies illuminate the landscape of a forgotten America."
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Publishers Weekly - Publisher's Weekly
Columnist Gonzales, left-wing and Puerto Rican, enlivens New York's tabloid Daily News with his sympathy and sensitivity for ``the outcast neighborhoods from which I came.'' This book, composed of excerpts from some of Gonzalez's best work, captures the brio of the daily dispatch but lacks the sustained focus that a book should provide. A union activist himself at the paper, Gonzalez knows the vital dignity of labor, writing about struggling and suffering workers in New York, Honduras and Haiti. Along with vignettes from New York and the Los Angeles riots, Gonzalez tracks the Honduran victims of a tragic New York fire and the underreported murder of Manuel de Dios Unanue, a Spanish-language journalist whose probes of Colombia's Cali drug cartel cost him his life. A skeptical witness of U.S. policies, Gonzalez visited Haiti and Cuba, emerging with disdain for the Clinton administration, though its policy toward Cuba is hardly different from those of its predecessors, and offering portraits of the ordinary folk trying to better their lives. Author tour. (Nov.)
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780860916932
  • Publisher: Verso
  • Publication date: 11/28/1996
  • Pages: 204
  • Sales rank: 944,849
  • Product dimensions: 5.59 (w) x 8.86 (h) x 0.70 (d)

Table of Contents

Foreword
1 New York, 1988-93 1
2 Los Angeles, 1992-93 65
3 Happy Land/Honduras, 1990 101
4 The Murder of Manuel de Dios Unanue 115
5 Free Trade: Mexico and the Caribbean, 1989-95 129
6 Haiti, 1991-94 153
7 Cuba, 1994 179
Postscript: New York, 1995 197
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