{"product_id":"rebels-exiles-and-bridge-builders-a-century-of-stories-from-mexicos-mennonite-villages-9781038344991","title":"Rebels, Exiles, and Bridge Builders: A Century of Stories from Mexico's Mennonite Villages","description":"In Chihuahua, Mexico, the Tres Culturas region is a place where Mennonite, Mestizo, and Indigenous Rarámuri people live, forming a crossroad of traditions, languages, and ways of living. A landscape of convergence and divergence, breaking and reforming, where you might be labeled a rebel-or even excommunicated-for following your dreams. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThrough poetic vignettes and photography, Rebels, Exiles, and Bridge Builders: A Century of Stories from Mexico's Mennonite Villages portrays one hundred years of cross-cultural encounters in the Tres Culturas region. A century that saw significant changes with intermarriage, sociopolitical pressures, and technological advances on the rise, with people pursuing higher education, economic opportunities, and different religious experiences. Race and ethnicity, gender and labor, migration and excommunication are at the heart of these stories. Some show what it's like to leave the only community they've known-choosing love and education over family and tradition. While others examine what it means to push the boundaries and still decide to stay. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA companion to the oral history project of the same name, Rebels, Exiles, and Bridge Builders blends narrative nonfiction and poetry, forming prose poems from transcript excerpts that honor the original speakers, their individual experiences and voices. Intimate and deeply relevant, this is a testament to the universality of connection, belonging, and home.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e FriesenPress\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/15\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781038344991\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 140\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.05lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 8.50w x 0.38d","brand":"Abigail Carl-Klassen","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52259651256501,"sku":"9781038344991","price":25.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_2d6a35d6-3394-43b9-b42b-c045b04c0805.jpg?v=1771342653","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/rebels-exiles-and-bridge-builders-a-century-of-stories-from-mexicos-mennonite-villages-9781038344991","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}