De Paisano a Paisano: What a Legendary Mexican Band Has to Say About the Lives of Its Listeners and Why It Matters.

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Abstract: This essay won or received an honorable mention for The Boothe Prize for excellence in first-year writing. The Boothe Prize recognizes and rewards outstanding expository and argumentative writing by undergraduate students in the first-year Writing and Rhetoric classes, Integrated Learning Environments, and Thinking Matters programs. In each award-winning essay, student writers demonstrate clarity of argument, excellent integration of research-based evidence, and compelling prose style. In this essay, Sierra Wells uses lyrics from a San José-based band, Los Tigres del Norte, to describe the Mexican immigrant experience, including the violence of borders and the effects of immigration on families and cultural identity.

Type of resource	text
Date created	June 2019

Author	Wells, Sierra
Advisor	Perkins, Sarah

Subject	Program in Writing and Rhetoric
Subject	Mexico
Subject	border
Subject	immigrant
Genre	Article

Location	https://purl.stanford.edu/ck905qj5637

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Preferred Citation: Wells, Sierra and Perkins, Sarah. (2019). De Paisano a Paisano: What a Legendary Mexican Band Has to Say About the Lives of Its Listeners and Why It Matters. Stanford Digital Repository. Available at: https://purl.stanford.edu/ck905qj5637

Boothe Prize Winners, Stanford University

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