Just picked up Francisco Cantu's
The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches from the Border. The book embodies a rare approach in that it goes about examining the scholarly from the vantage point of lived experience--in other words, it forces us to ask how accurately can lived experience be represented through scholarly terminology. His experience as a Border Patrol agent and his understanding/analyses of the experience(s) serve as the reference against which he judges the scholarly. This could easily have become an exercise in blindly rejecting the scholarly, but Cantu' is charitable, shrewd, and straightforward when necessary. Great read!