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.

Updated September 23, 2025
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The Dangerous Divide: Peril and Promise on the US-Mexico Border
Eichstaedt, Peter
Paper Book
2015 International Latino Book Awards Winner for Best Political / Current Affairs Book How do we balance border security and America's need for a vital workforce while continuing to provide access to the American dream? Since the attacks of 9/11, the United...
Border land, border water : a history of construction on the U.S.-Mexico divide
Alvarez, C. J.
Paper Book
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...
Borderlands : the new mestiza = La frontera
Anzaldúa, Gloria.
Paper Book
Rooted in Gloria Anzald#65533;a's experience as a Chicana, a lesbian, an activist, and a writer, the groundbreaking essays and poems in this volume profoundly challenged how we think about identity. Borderlands/La Frontera remapped our understanding of what a "border" is, seeing it...
Transnational encounters : music and performance at the U.S.-Mexico border
Madrid, Alejandro L.
Paper Book
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...
The devil's highway : a true story
Urrea, Luis Alberto.
Paper Book
An account of "twenty-six men who in May 2001 attempted to cross the Mexican border into the desert of southern Arizona, through the deadly region known as the Devil's Highway ... Only twelve of the men made it out."--Page 4 of cover.
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
Paper Book
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...
Covering the border war : how the news media creates crime, race, nation, and the USA-Mexico divide
Kil, Sang Hea
Paper Book
Covering the Border War: How the News Media Create Crime, Race, Nation, and the USA-Mexico Divide examines the notion of the body politic in border newspaper coverage of the USA-Mexico divide and how the nation and immigration are racially imagined in crime news discourse, where whiteness is...
Migrant Imaginaries: Latino Cultural Politics in the U. S. -Mexico Borderlands
Camacho, Alicia Schmidt
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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