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Communities Without Borders: Images and Voices from the World of Migration.(Book review)

Colorlines Magazine

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COMMUNITIES WITHOUT BORDERS: IMAGES AND VOICES FROM THE WORLD OF MIGRATION

By David Bacon

Cornell University Press, 2006

So much of migration goes unseen by most Americans, and so many of the stories are never heard. But in his new book Communities Without Borders, activist and acclaimed photographer David Bacon brings the images and the political stories of migrants to the forefront. He photographs everything from migrants striking in Nebraska to the Mixtecs of Oaxaca, Mexico playing basketball. The black-and-white images are unflinching.

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