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When I Wear My Alligator Boots - Narco-Culture in the U.S. Mexico Borderlands (Paperback, New)
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When I Wear My Alligator Boots - Narco-Culture in the U.S. Mexico Borderlands (Paperback, New)
Series: California Series in Public Anthropology, 33
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"When I Wear My Alligator Boots "examines how the lives of
dispossessed men and women are affected by the rise of
narcotrafficking along the U.S.-Mexico border. In particular, the
book explores a crucial tension at the heart of the war on drugs:
despite the violence and suffering brought on by drug cartels, for
the rural poor in MexicoOCOs north, narcotrafficking offers one of
the few paths to upward mobility and is a powerful source of
cultural meanings and local prestige.
In the borderlands, traces of the drug trade are everywhere: from
gang violence in cities to drug addiction in rural villages, from
the vibrant folklore popularized in the narco-corridos of Nortea
music to the icon of Jess Malverde, the patron saint of narcos,
tucked beneath the shirts of local people. In" When I Wear My
Alligator Boots, "the author explores the everyday reality of the
drug trade by living alongside its low-level workers, who live at
the edges of the violence generated by the militarization of the
war on drugs. Rather than telling the story of the powerful cartel
leaders, the book focuses on the women who occasionally make their
sandwiches, the low-level businessmen who launder their money, the
addicts who consume their products, the mules who carry their money
and drugs across borders, and the men and women who serve out
prison sentences when their bosses' operations go awry.
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