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[Bill Moyers interviewed Luis Urrea] Between Two Worlds — Life on the Border
No writer understands the border culture between Mexico and the United States more intimately than Luis Alberto Urrea, whose life is the stuff of great novels. Son of a Mexican father and Anglo mother, Urrea grew up first in Tijuana and then just across the border in San Die
go. Over the years he has produced a series of acclaimed novels, including The Hummingbird’s Daughter, The Devil’s Highway, and his latest, Queen of America — each a rich and revealing account of the people of the borderlands that join and separate our two nations.
Three of Urrea’s books were among scores of others removed from classrooms earlier this year when the Tucson school district eliminated Mexican-American studies on the accusation it was “divisive.” But there’s no ban on ideas in Bill’s studio, and Urrea talks with Bill Moyers about that episode as he unfolds the modern reality of life on the border.
Click to watch the interview: http://billmoyers.com/episode/full-show-between-two-worlds-life-on-the-border/
I greatly appreciated you interview. One thing I thought could have been mentioned is the Obama Administration’s devastating crackdown on people it terms “illegal.”
This was the most moving, informative interview show I have ever seen. Biographical, autobiographical,sensitive, informative, brutally graphic with conversational visual emotion….from a particpant and observer alike. It’s a third party review of one’s scarring past. It projects the images and breathes life into them from only one that has lived it. There aren’t enough words to describe the perspective and perception Luis Alberto Urrea emotes in the interview. Thank you.