U.S.-Mexico Borderlands

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U.S.-Mexico Borderlands

Explore essential titles on the United States and Mexico border region, selected by RCL editors. Resources for College Libraries (RCL) features 90,000+ core titles for academic libraries, curated by Choice/ACRL subject specialists and available at rclweb.net.

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The dangerous divide : peril and promise on the US-Mexico border
Eichstaedt, Peter H.
Ebook
Since the attacks of 9/11, the United States has steadily ramped up security along the US-Mexico border, transforming America's legendary Southwest into a frontier of fear. Veteran journalist Peter Eichstaedt roams this fabled region from Tucson, Arizona, to El Paso, Texas, bringing readers face...
Border land, border water : a history of construction on the US-Mexico divide
Alvarez, C. J.
Ebook
Winner, Abbott Lowell Cummings Award, Vernacular Architecture Forum, 2020 Winner, Elisabeth Blair MacDougall Book Award, Society of Architectural Historians, 2021 From the boundary surveys of the 1850s to the ever-expanding fences and highway networks of the twenty...
Borderlands = La frontera : the new mestiza
Anzaldúa, Gloria.
Paper Book
Second edition of Gloria Anzaldua's major work, with a new critical introduction by Chicano Studies scholar and new reflections by Anzaldua.
Transnational encounters : music and performance at the U.S.-Mexico border
Madrid, Alejandro L.
Ebook
Through the study of a large variety of musical practices from the U.S.-Mexico border, Transnational Encounters seeks to provide a new perspective on the complex character of this geographic area. By focusing not only on norteña, banda or conjunto musics (the most stereotypical musical traditions...
Women and migration in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands : a reader
Segura, Denise A.
Paper Book
Women's migration within Mexico and from Mexico to the United States is increasing; nearly as many women as men are migrating. This development gives rise to new social negotiations, which have not been well examined in migration studies until now. This pathbreaking reader analyzes how...
The forgotten diaspora : Mesoamerican migrations and the making of the U.S.-Mexico borderlands
Jeffres, Travis
Ebook
Winner of the 2023 Robert M. Utley Award Finalist for the 2023 David J. Weber Book Prize Named a 2024 Choice Outstanding Academic Title In The Forgotten Diaspora Travis Jeffres explores how Native...
Migra! : a history of the U.S. Border Patrol
Hernandez, Kelly Lytle.
Paper Book
Political awareness of the tensions in U.S.-Mexico relations is rising in the twenty-first century; the American history of its treatment of illegal immigrants represents a massive failure of the promises of the American dream. This is the untold history of the United States Border Patrol from...
Migrant imaginaries : Latino cultural politics in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands
Schmidt Camacho, Alicia R.
Paper Book
Winner of the 2009 Lora Romero First Book Prize from the American Studies Association 2009 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Explores the transnational movements of Mexican migrants, including their expressive culture and social movement practices
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