Our America: A Hispanic History of the United States by Felipe Fernández-Armesto (review)
and mystifications—has emerged as a crucial symbol in U.S. political struggles over migration. It is hardly a criticism of her capable study and analysis to point out that the processes of political struggle over the border and migration include other actors and forces, including border-resident community organizations as well as nationally oriented activists (to be accurate, all three organizations she studied involved borderregion residents as well as outsiders drawn to the border).