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Aaron Bobrow-Strain is a professor of politics at Whitman College, where he teaches courses dealing with food, immigration, and the U.S.-Mexico border. His writing has appeared in Believer, The Chronicle of Higher Education Review, Salon, and Gastronomica. Along with The Death and Life of Aida Hernandez: A Border Story, he is the author of White Bread: A Social History of the Store-Bought Loaf and Intimate Enemies: Landowners, Power, and Violence in Chiapas. 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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	The Death and Life of Aida Hernandez: A Border Story 4.43 avg rating — 1,347 ratings — published 2019	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	White Bread: A Social History of the Store-Bought Loaf 3.64 avg rating — 822 ratings — published 2012 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Intimate Enemies: Landowners, Power, and Violence in Chiapas 4.30 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2007 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Atomic Bread Baking at Home by Aaron Bobrow-Strain (Goodreads Author), Timothy McKean (Narrator) 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“men sat around discussing the ethics of eating and farming, while women did all the work.23”
― Aaron Bobrow-Strain, White Bread: A Social History of the Store-Bought Loaf

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“[...] the "explosion" of Mexicans crossing the border without permission was entirely predictable. It was the inevitable consequence of of policies that slashed opportunities to migrate legally without addressing the forces pushing and pulling people across the line. People who had lived their lives across two countries legally and peacefully for decades were suddenly redefined as invaders and threats. The "Illegal immigrant" was thus invented in Washington, D.C., conjured out of contradiction.”
― Aaron Bobrow-Strain, The Death and Life of Aida Hernandez: A Border Story

tags: borders, immigration, immigration-issues, mexico, politics, united-states

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“Everyone else makes mistakes, but immigrants can never make mistakes," Rosie said, and she was right.”
― Aaron Bobrow-Strain, The Death and Life of Aida Hernandez: A Border Story

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