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Why Walls Won't Work - Repairing the US-Mexico Divide (Hardcover)
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Why Walls Won't Work - Repairing the US-Mexico Divide (Hardcover)
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Today, when one thinks of the border separating the United States
from Mexico, what typically comes to mind is a mutually unwelcoming
zone, with violent, poverty-ridden towns, cities, and maquiladoras
on one side and an increasingly militarized network of barriers and
surveillance systems on the other. It was not always this way. In
fact, from the end of Mexican-American War until the late twentieth
century, the border was a very porous and loosely regulated region.
In this sweeping account of life within the United States-Mexican
border zone, Michael Dear, eminent scholar and co-founder of the
"L.A. School" of urban theory, traces the border's long history of
cultural interaction, beginning with the numerous Mesoamerican
tribes of the region. Once Mexican and American settlers reached
the Rio Grande and the desert southwest in the nineteenth century,
new forms of interaction evolved. But as Dear warns in his bracing
study, this vibrant zone of cultural and social amalgamation is in
danger of fading away because of highly restrictive American
policies and the relentless violence along Mexico's side of the
border. Through a series of evocative portraits of contemporary
border communities, he shows that the 'third space' occupied by
both Americans and Mexicans still exists, and the potential for
reviving it remains. Yet, Dear also explains through analyses of
the U.S. "border security complex" and the emerging Mexican
"Narco-state" why it is in danger of extinction. Combining a broad
historical perspective and a commanding overview of present-day
problems, Why Walls Won't Work represents a major intellectual
intervention into one of the most hotly contested political issues
of our era.
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