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'187 Reasons' is a Journey of the Soul, Race and Identity, Power and Struggle

By Brandi Herrera Pfrehm
Jackson Free Press | May 7, 2008
Herrera's assemblage of essays, poems of varying degrees and form, songs and mixed-media work aims to confront what seems to be an eternal impasse for the Chicano: straddling the fence of an imaginary U.S.-Mexican border, hobbling at the edge of an identity and never quite being able to step onto one side or the other.
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