The U.S.-Mexico border has earned an enduring reputation as a site
of violence. During the past twenty years in particular, the drug
wars--fueled by the international movement of narcotics and vast
sums of money--have burned an abiding image of the border as a
place of endemic danger into the consciousness of both countries.
By the media, popular culture, and politicians, mayhem and
brutality are often portrayed as the unavoidable birthright of this
transnational space. Through multiple perspectives from both sides
of the border, the collected essays in These Ragged Edges directly
challenge that idea, arguing that rapidly changing conditions along
the U.S.-Mexico border through the nineteenth, twentieth, and
twenty-first centuries have powerfully shaped the ebb and flow of
conflict within the region. By diving deeply into diverse types of
violence, contributors dissect the roots and consequences of border
violence across numerous eras, offering a transnational analysis of
how and why violence has affected the lives of so many inhabitants
on both sides of the border. Contributors include Alberto
Barrera-Enderle, Alice Baumgartner, Timothy Bowman, Lance R. Blyth,
Elaine Carey, William D. Carrigan, Jose Carlos Cisneros Guzman,
Alejandra Diaz de Leon, Miguel Angel Gonzalez-Quiroga, Santiago
Ivan Guerra, Gerardo Gurza-Lavalle, Sonia Hernandez, Alan Knight,
Jose Gabriel Martinez Serna, Brandon Morgan, and Joaquin
Rivaya-Martinez, Andrew J. Torget, and Clive Webb.
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