# American Encounters

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- Book: [American Encounters](https://www.bookquiver.com/jose-limon/american-encounters) ([American Encounters.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/jose-limon/american-encounters.md))
- Authors: [Jose Limon](https://www.bookquiver.com/jose-limon)
- Publisher: beacon_press
- ISBN: 978-08-0700-237-7
- Pages: 264
- Published: 1999-11-10
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

The idea of crossing the border between the United States and what award-winning anthropologist José Limón calls " Greater Mexico" has always conjured images of racial hostility and exclusion....