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Hard Line: Life and Death on the Us-Mexico Border
$10.13
The Southwestern border is one of the most fascinating places in America, a region of rugged beauty and small communities that coexist across the international line. In the past decade, the area has also become deadly as illegal immigration has shifted into some of the harshest territory on the continent, reshaping life on both sides of the border. In Hard Line, Ken Ellingwood, a correspondent for the Los Angeles Times, captures the heart of this complex and fascinating land, through the dramatic stories of undocumented immigrants and the border agents who track them through the desert, Native Americans divided between two countries, human rights workers aiding the migrants and ranchers taking the law into their own hands. This is a vivid portrait of a place and its people, and a moving story of the West that has major implications for the nation as a whole.
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Hands Across the Border: A Brief Story of Mexico, Her People and Her Chief Attractions for Visitors from the United States and Elsewhere
$16.77
Hands Across the Border: A Brief Story of Mexico, Her People and Her Chief Attractions for Visitors from the United States and Elsewhere
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From Aztec to High Tech: Architecture and Landscape Across the Mexico-United States Border
$20.95
The United States and Mexico share a two-thousand-mile boundary where landscape and architecture clash in a vivid contrast of two cultures. From Aztec to High Tech explores the architectural future of interdependent neighbors who share a history, an economy, and a landscape. After reviewing three key periods in Mexico’s three-thousand-year-old architectural past — indigenous, Spanish colonial, and modern — urban planning scholar Lawrence A. Herzog focuses on the border territories of northern Mexico and the southwestern United States, particularly in California.Through eighty black-and-white photographs and interviews with architects from both sides of the border, this engaging book provides a compelling picture of how traditional Mexican architecture has intersected with the postindustrial, high-tech urban style of the United States — a mix that offers an alternative to the homogenization of architecture north of the international border.
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Fragmented Lives, Assembled Parts: Culture, Capitalism, and Conquest at the U.S.-Mexico Border
$27.95
Fragmented Lives, Assembled Parts: Culture, Capitalism, and Conquest at the U.S.-Mexico Border
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Fragmented Lives, Assembled Parts: Culture, Capitalism, and Conquest at the U.S.-Mexico Border
$65.00
Fragmented Lives, Assembled Parts: Culture, Capitalism, and Conquest at the U.S.-Mexico Border
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Fifty Years of Change on the U.S.-Mexico Border: Growth, Development, and Quality of Life
$60.00
Fifty Years of Change on the U.S.-Mexico Border: Growth, Development, and Quality of Life
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Fifty Years of Change on the U.S.-Mexico Border: Growth, Development, and Quality of Life
$24.95
Fifty Years of Change on the U.S.-Mexico Border: Growth, Development, and Quality of Life
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Demographic Dynamics of the U.S.-Mexico Border
$22.22
Demographic Dynamics of the U.S.-Mexico Border
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Dancing Alone in Mexico: From the Border to Baja and Beyond
$12.97
Can a man have a love affair with a foreign land? Ron Butler never dreamed Mexico would capture his heart and his soul. But when his ex-wife moved to Guadalajara with their children in the wake of divorce, he found himself crisscrossing the country, seduced by its charms and moved by its rhythms and its melodies.Like the diver of an old Mexican legend who lives beneath the sea seeking the best pearl, Butler lost himself in Mexico and found the hidden treasures of every tiny hamlet and big metropolis. He writes about the endangered monarch butterflies of El Rosario, the street bands of Zacatecas, and the mummies of Guanajuato. He takes a magical night ferry ride from Mazatlan and a train excursion into Copper Canyon — a chasm four times larger than the Grand Canyon — in Mexico’s most mysterious mountains. He goes off the beaten path in such tourist havens as Acapulco and Cancun. And he walks in the footsteps of movie stars and artists who too have been enamored of Mexico.Poking into the nooks and crannies of Mexico, Butler indulges in tasty Mexican specialties at both the finest restaurants and out-of-the-way street stands. He finds the best tequila in the town named Tequila, the world’s most delicious cup of coffee in Veracruz, the sweetest dulce in Morelia, and the best mole — a Mayan chile and chocolate sauce embellished by nuns anxious to please a visiting Spanish viceroy — in Puebla. Sharing his considerable knowledge of art, Butler also uncovers the best of Mexico’s museums and advises shoppers about folk crafts.Informative and helpful as the best travel guide, Dancing Alone in Mexico will help even seasoned travelers to get the most out of their trips to Mexico.Casual and lively as the best travel memoir, the book will also delight the armchair traveler with south-of-the-border stories and adventures that come only to those who dance not alone but with an entire land.
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Crossing Borders, Reinforcing Borders: Social Categories & Narrative Identities on the U. S.-Mexico Frontier
$20.95
Along the U.S.-Mexico frontier, where border crossings are a daily occurrence for many people, reinforcing borders is also a common activity. Not only does the U.S. Border Patrol strive to hold the line against illegal immigrants, but many residents on both sides of the border seek to define and bound themselves apart from groups they perceive as others .This pathfinding ethnography charts the social categories, metaphors, and narrative stories that inhabitants of El Paso and Ciudad Juarez use to define their group identity and distinguish themselves from others . Pablo Vila draws on over 200 group interviews with more than 900 area residents to describe how Mexican nationals, Mexican immigrants, Mexican Americans, African Americans, and Anglos make sense of themselves and perceive their differences from others.This research uncovers the regionalism by which many northern Mexicans construct their sense of identity, the nationalism that often divides Mexican Americans from Mexican nationals, and the role of ethnicity in setting boundaries among Anglos, Mexicans, and African Americans. Vila also looks at how gender, age, religion, and class intertwine with these factors. He concludes with fascinating excerpts from re-interviews with several informants, who modified their views of other groups when confronted by the author with the narrative character of their identities.
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Catarino Garza’s Revolution on the Texas-Mexico Border
$80.96
This is an original, provocative, and far-reaching book that breaks with the existing conceptualization of fields of study and national historiographical traditions. It not only makes a case for the importance of the Garza revolt itself but also uses the rebellion to reflect upon broad themes, including those of U.S.-Mexican relations; comparative colonialisms; the formation of borders; Latin American liberalism; and race, gender, and class. –William French, author of A Peaceful and Working People: Manners, Morals, and Class Formation in Northern Mexico
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Catarino Garza’s Revolution on the Texas-Mexico Border
$24.95
This is an original, provocative, and far-reaching book that breaks with the existing conceptualization of fields of study and national historiographical traditions. It not only makes a case for the importance of the Garza revolt itself but also uses the rebellion to reflect upon broad themes, including those of U.S.-Mexican relations; comparative colonialisms; the formation of borders; Latin American liberalism; and race, gender, and class. –William French, author of A Peaceful and Working People: Manners, Morals, and Class Formation in Northern Mexico
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Cashing in on a Second Home in Mexico: How to Buy, Rent and Profit from Real Estate South of the Border
$13.30
Cashing in on a Second Home in Mexico: How to Buy, Rent and Profit from Real Estate South of the Border
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Building the Borderlands: A Transnational History of Irrigated Cotton Along the Mexico-Texas Border
$47.50
Building the Borderlands: A Transnational History of Irrigated Cotton Along the Mexico-Texas Border
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Bordering the Future: The Impact of Mexico on the United States
$39.95
The border between the United States and Mexico runs for 1, 951 miles. The differences between the two nations may be immense, but their links–economic, political, and social–are profound, and growing stronger. In this incisive narrative, John Adams argues that Mexico is no sideshow, but a pivotal component of American economic health and regional security. The primary theme that runs throughout the book is that Mexico–its domestic growth and industrial capacity, population pressures, energy needs, political dynamics, and strategic location–has historically had, and will continue to have, a tremendous impact on the United States. Drawing from the most current economic and demographic data and business examples, Adams demonstrates the depth and breadth of U.S.-Mexican relations and their implications for American business and policymaking. A unique aspect of the book is his analysis of the competition between Mexico and China for American resources for investment, trade, and economic development. Adams also dispels popular myths about Mexico as an economic backwater or political distraction. The result is an authoritative and colorful account of our complex relationship with our neighbor to the south–and its broader implications for global economic growth and political stability.
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Bordering on Chaos: Mexico’s Roller-Coaster Journey Toward Prosperity
$17.77
Hailed for its gripping narrative, its insightful analysis, and its informed historical perspective, this book offers a revealing look at the secret and powerful political society of Mexico, its breakup, and the fallout that we are witnessing today ( Wall Street Journal ). of photos.
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Border People: Life and Society in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands
$16.77
‘The most fascinating parts of this well-presented book are the interviews with all types of border people (one man estimates being caught by immigration officials five times in one day) and many women who’ve had to endure harsh treatment while living in Mexico and legally working in the U.S. In all, Martinez has extensively covered one of America’s most historically pressing concerns and has done it with dignity and humanity for those both north and south of the border.’–Booklist
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Border Identifications: Narratives of Religion, Gender, and Class on the U.S.-Mexico Border
$19.95
In this book, Vila continues the exploration of identities he began in Crossing Borders, Reinforcing Borders by looking at how religion, gender, and class also affect people’s identifications of self and others among Mexican nationals, Mexican immigrants, Mexican Americans, Anglos, and African Americans in the Cuidad Jua rez-El Paso area. Among the many fascinating issues he raises are how the perception that all Mexicans are Catholic affects Mexican Protestants and Pentecostals; how the discourse about proper gender roles may feed the violence against women that has made Jua rez the women’s murder capital of the world ; and why class consciousness is paradoxically absent in a region with great disparities of wealth. His research underscores the complexity of the process of social identification and confirms that the idealized notion of hybridity is only partially adequate to define people’s identity on the U.S.-Mexico border.
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Border Games: Policing the U.S.-Mexico Divide
$19.95
Border Games: Policing the U.S.-Mexico Divide
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Border Film Project: Migrant and Minutemen Photos from the U.S.-Mexico Border
$15.56
Hundreds of disposable cameras were distributed to migrants and Minutemen along the U.S.-Mexico border to document their own journeys. Capturing images from both sides, this poignant collection tells the stories that no news piece, policy debate, or academic study could possibly convey.
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Alambrista and the U.S.–Mexico Border: Film, Music, and Stories of Undocumented Immigrants with CD (Audio) and DVD
$37.50
The critically acclaimed 110-minute film Alambrista (1977) depicts the harsh realities of Mexican life on both sides of the border. For this release, a group of scholars has packaged a new director’’s cut of the film with a book of essays devoted to immigration and the U.S.-Mexican borderlands and an enhanced CD of the sound track.
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Adventures Into Mexico: American Tourism Beyond the Border
$25.95
Moving beyond the tequila-soaked clichs of Mexican tourism, this multifaceted book explores the influence and experiences of Americans in Mexico since World War II. The authors trace Mexico’s growing role as an important refuge for Americans seeking not only sun and fun but an alternative cultural and social model. Delving into the rich and varied worlds of political exiles, students, art dealers, retiree/artist colonies, and tourist zones, this work illustrates why large numbers of Americans have been irresistibly drawn to Mexico. Specialists in literature, anthropology, history, and geography bring their unique perspectives to the stories of these migrants, offering a fascinating interpretation to all those interested in modern Mexican history, border studies, tourism, and retirement in Mexico.
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Annexing Mexico: Solving the Border Problem Through Annexation and Assimilation
$24.95
The border between the United States and Mexico isn’t just a boundary between nations; it’s a chasm that separates a wealthy global superpower from a poverty-stricken Third World Country. To millions of Mexicans desperate for a better life, it’s a finish line-to cross it undetected means to seek prosperity in America. In 1844 the United States annexed Texas and over the next few years took most of the current Southwest United States. Today, the Mexican people south-of-the-border see the benefits of life in the good-old U.S. of A. and according to polls, they’re willing to finish things up and give us the rest. Columnist Erik Rush proposes that we take them up on the offer. Erik Rush say, ‘40% of Mexicans claim that they would move here if they could. Let’s save them the effort and bring the U.S. to them.’
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Archaeology Without Borders: Contact, Commerce, and Change in the U.S. Southwest and Northwestern Mexico
$65.00
Archaeology without Borders presents new research by leading U.S. and Mexican scholars and explores the impacts on archaeology of the border between the United States and Mexico. It offers a synthesis of early agricultural adaptations in the region, groundbreaking archaeological research on social identity, and data previously not readily available to English-speaking readers. The twenty-four essays discuss early agriculture, social identity, and cultural landscapes, as well as economic and social interactions within the area now encompassed by northern Mexico and the U.S. Southwest.
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