Desert Roots is the true story of the authorOCOs parents who, after being self-imposed exiles from their native Iran for 33 years, decided to leave the United States and return to their homeland.

My dissertation investigates the visuality of race, that is, the idea of race as a visible phenomenon by analyzing representations of two different racial types: the Old American and the New Negro.

My dissertation investigates the visuality of race, that is, the idea of race as a visible phenomenon by analyzing representations of two different racial types: the Old American and the New Negro.

Catholic pamphlet. Rare.

Bustamante provides a rare insight of the border as an entire transnational social field, with a similar racial and ethnic composition.