Monday, May 16, 2016

"Crossings - A Political Fable of the Near Future"



Sobre el Libro /About the Book

"Crossings - A Political Fable of the Near Future" imagines that a new President begins an effort to deport 11 million people from the U.S. in early 2017. What would happen in the United States? What would happen in Mexico? Through the lives of characters in both countries, we see the economic and human effects, the violence that might follow, and the deep political forces that would be unleashed.

Sobre el Libro

Crossings narra la saga imaginaria que podría desatarse a partir de la toma de posesión del nuevo presidente de los Estados Unidos en 2017, quien de inmediato inicia acciones para cumplir con su promesa de campaña de deportar a once millones de indocumentados, la mayoría mexicanos.  ¿Qué sucedería al interior de los EE.UU.?  ¿Qué sucedería en México?  A través de las vidas de personajes en ambos países, observamos los impactos económicos, los costos humanos, la violencia que esta política provocaría, y las potentes fuerzas sociales que se desatarían.

About the Authors

Sid Gardner has had a career in federal, state, and local government, serving in elective and appointive
posts in Washington, D.C., New York City, Connecticut and California. He is a Southern California native,
United States Army Vietnam veteran, and has graduate degrees from Princeton University's Woodrow
Wilson School and Hartford Seminary. He resides in Mission Viejo with his wife, Dr. Nancy Young and one
of their four children. 

Sid has written seven novels and several other nonfiction books. Sid's novels are set in California and the
Old West, with a blend of history and current events. His other novels can be found online at Amazon.com

Sid Gardner inició su carrera sirviendo en cargos de elección popular y por designación a nivel federal, estatal y de gobiernos locales en Connecticut y California. Es originario del Sur de California, veterano del ejército de los EE.UU. en Vietnam. Posee títulos de posgrado de la Escuela Woodrow Wilson en la Universidad de Princeton y del Seminario de Hartford. Reside en Mission Viejo, California con su esposa, la dra. Nancy Young y sus cuatro hijos. 

Sid ha escrito seis novelas y varias obras más sobre aspectos de políticas públicas.  Sus novelas se ubican en California y el Viejo Oeste, mezclando eventos históricos con realidades actuales. Su obra se encuentra disponible en www.amazon.com y www.barnesandnoble.com .



Scott Robinson is a social anthropologist and documentary filmmaker who has lived and worked in
Mexico for over fifty years. In 2013 after thirty years of teaching and research, he retired from the
Departamento de Antropología, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Iztapalapa campus, Mexico City. 

After and while submitting his Ph.D. dissertation on Kofan Shamanism to Cornell University (1975),
he began work as a freelance 16mm cameraman and doc film maker. Since 1968, Scott published
academic papers and activist pamphlets in different media throughout Latin America.  The defense of
native communities in the face of development projects has been a constant theme. Some of
his documentaries are online: www.antropologiavisual.net and www.vimeo.com .

Scott S. Robinson un antropólogo social y cineasta documentalista, inmigrado a México durante más de 50 años.  En el año 2013, después de 30 años de actividad docente y de investigación, se retiró del Departamento de Antropología de la Universidad Autònoma Metropolitana, en la Ciudad de México. 


Después de defender su tesis doctoral (Shamanismo Kofan, 1975) en la Universidad de Cornell, durante varios años dirigió, produjo e hizo la fotografìa de documentales en 16mm.  Desde 1968, ha publicado reportes académicos y en distintos medios latinoamericanos, textos diversos en defensa de derechos indígenas amenazados por megaproyectos de “desarrollo” y otros temas.  Algunos de sus documentales se encuentran en: www.antropologiavisual.net y www.vimeo.com .

Sunday, May 15, 2016

Novel - Crossings - A Political Fable of The Near Future

Novel - Crossings - A Political Fable of The Near Future: Crossings - A Political Fable of The Near Future novel

By A sometime buyer on May 4, 2016
Format: Paperback
So what if a U.S. president moved to deport all those “illegals” as Donald Trump has promised? This is clever speculative fiction about how that might play out. Its two greatest strengths: highly readable insight into how cynical many Mexicans are about how things really work on their side of the border and into why the work of the migrants is so important to both countries. For the understanding it makes so palatable, this self-described “political fable” has enduring value, regardless of what happens in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. The authors are old college buddies (Occidental, in California), Gardner a professional writer, Robinson a recently retired anthropology professor in Mexico City and documentary film maker

--Morris Thompson

Retired U.S. journalist, old “Latin America” hand