Aaron Bobrow-Strain

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Aaron Bobrow-Strain is a professor of politics at Whitman College, where he teaches courses on food, immigration, and the U.S.-Mexico border. In the 1990s, he worked on the U.S.-Mexico border as an activist and educator. He is a founding member of the Walla Walla Immigrant Rights Coalition in Washington State.

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Selected Works

Nonfiction

The Death and Life of Aida Hernandez: A Border Story

In this caring and unforgettable borderland saga, Bobrow-Strain reveals the profound personal toll of the immigration crisis." Booklist Starred Review

White Bread: A Social History of the Store-Bought Loaf

"In this fascinating history of perhaps the most maligned and emblematic American food--industrially made white bread--Bobrow-Strain subtly upends common prejudices while illuminating fundamental shifts in the nation's economy, gender relations, aesthetic preferences, diet, and cultural politics." --Benjamin Schwarz, The Atlantic Monthly

Intimate Enemies: Landowners, Power, and Violence in Chiapas

"One of the most interesting, original, and important books about Chiapas (and, I think, about rural Latin America) that has been published in the past 20 years." Thomas Benjamin in the Hispanic American Historical Review

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