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""Juárez argues that Lincoln Park exemplifies a story that could be (and in a few cases has been) told about any of hundreds of barrios and other minoritized communities in the United States. The major narrative arc of arrival, community building, housing and employment discrimination, segregation, condemnation, and destruction is sadly emblematic of the way that Latino and Black neighborhoods have fared in the urban political economy of the United States.""--A. K. Sandoval-Strausz, author of Barrio America: How Latino Immigrants Saved the American City ""There is little literature on highway construction and displacement and activism against them along major U.S. cities near the U.S. Mexican border. Juárez does a masterful job bringing history alive! The writing is succinct, informative, and engaging.""--Erualdo Gonzalez, author of Latino City: Urban Planning, Politics, and the Grassroots ""Frontera Freeways is rich in detail and encompasses an expansive historical period. There are few studies of Mexican American communities that provide evidence of the cold-hearted processes of relocating people and harsh consequences of urban renewal and breakup of neighborhoods. I would love to see this research replicated in San Antonio, Houston, Dallas, and Los Angeles.""--Ricardo Romo, author of East Los Angeles: History of a Barrio

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Miguel (Mike) Juarez is a first-generation, multidisciplinary scholar/educator at the University of Texas at El Paso and at El Paso Community College. He has published two books: Where Are All the Librarians of Color: The Experiences of People of Color in Academia, co-edited with Rebecca Hankins; and Colors on Desert Walls: The Murals of El Paso, with photographs by Cynthia Weber Farah.

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