- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Contents
- Maps
- Introduction The Descendants
- Prologue Nepantla
- Part I The Texas-Mexico Borderlands
- 1 The Miracle Tree
- 2 The Rebel
- 3 The Venerable
- 4 The Activist and the Ordinance
- 5 The Bonder and the Dealer
- 6 The Agents
- 7 The Wall
- 8 The Chokepoint
- 9 The Woman in the Woods
- 10 The Healing
- Part II The New York–Canada Borderlands
- 11 The Sort of Homecoming
- 12 The Trade
- 13 The War
- 14 The Saint
- 15 The Activist and the Obelisk
- 16 The Movement
- 17 The Mother Tongue
- 18 The Bridge
- 19 The River
- 20 The Words That Come Before All Else
- Epilogue The United States of In-between
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
The Rebel
The Rebel
- Chapter:
- (p.16) 2 The Rebel
- Source:
- All the Agents and Saints
- Author(s):
Stephanie Elizondo Griest
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
Corpus Christi activist Lionel Lopez leads the author on a tour of the colonias, the unincorporated communities that began cropping up in the Texas borderlands in the 1950s when developers foisted off cheap plots of land lacking running water, sewage systems, electricity hookups, fire hydrants, and paved roads to low-income (and largely Mexican-American) families. Upwards of 400,000 Texans live in such neighborhoods today. Diabetes are rife here, as is asthma. Scores of babies have birth defects. Too many people are dying of cancer. And when the colonias flood each year during the rainy season, outhouses and septic tanks do too, causing outbreaks of infections and diarrhea. Mothers lose their toenails.
Keywords: South Texas, Colonias, U.S. Ecology, Inc, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, U.S. Mexico border, Corpus Christi, Texas, low-income family, Mexican-American, Tejano, borderlands
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Contents
- Maps
- Introduction The Descendants
- Prologue Nepantla
- Part I The Texas-Mexico Borderlands
- 1 The Miracle Tree
- 2 The Rebel
- 3 The Venerable
- 4 The Activist and the Ordinance
- 5 The Bonder and the Dealer
- 6 The Agents
- 7 The Wall
- 8 The Chokepoint
- 9 The Woman in the Woods
- 10 The Healing
- Part II The New York–Canada Borderlands
- 11 The Sort of Homecoming
- 12 The Trade
- 13 The War
- 14 The Saint
- 15 The Activist and the Obelisk
- 16 The Movement
- 17 The Mother Tongue
- 18 The Bridge
- 19 The River
- 20 The Words That Come Before All Else
- Epilogue The United States of In-between
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
