"We were trying to change the vision and the conversation about
border fears." Border Odyssey takes us on a drive toward
understanding the U.S./Mexico divide: all 1,969 miles-from Boca
Chica to Tijuana-pressing on with the useful fiction of a map. "We
needed to go to the place where countless innocent people had been
kicked, cussed, spit on, arrested, detained, trafficked, and
killed. It would become clear that the border, la frontera, was
more multifaceted and profound than anything we could have invented
about it from afar." Along the journey, five centuries of cultural
history (indigenous, French, Spanish, Mexican, African American,
colonist, and U.S.), wars, and legislation unfold. And through
observation, conversation, and meditation, Border Odyssey scopes
the stories of the people and towns on both sides. "Stories are the
opposite of walls: they demand release, retelling, showing,
connecting, each image chipping away at boundaries. Walls are full
stops. But stories are like commas, always making possible the next
clause." Among the terrain traversed: walls and more walls,
unexpected roadblocks and patrol officers; a golf course (you could
drive a ball across the border); a Civil War battlefield (you could
camp there); the southernmost plantation in the United States; a
hand-drawn ferry, a road-runner tracked desert, and a breathtaking
national park; barbed wire, bridges, and a trucking-trade
thoroughfare; ghosts with guns; obscured, unmarked, and unpaved
roads; a Catholic priest and his dogs, artwork, icons, and
political cartoons; a sheriff and a chain-smoking mayor; a Tex-Mex
eatery empty of customers and a B&B shuttering its doors;
murder-laden newspaper headlines at breakfast; the kindness of the
border-crossing underground; and too many elderly, impoverished,
ex-U.S. farmworkers, braceros, lined up to have Thompson take their
photograph.
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