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Description:PURO BORDER, Dispatches, Snapshots and Graffiti from the U.S./Mexico Border, is the younger brother of Cinco Puntos’ successful collection of essays about the U.S./Mexico border: THE LATE GREAT MEXICAN BORDER, Reports from a Disappearing Line (now out of print). Both anthologies grew from Cinco Puntos’ frustration with the national media’s myopic reporting of the border.The U.S./Mexico border, with its frantic commerce in drugs, human beings, electronic gadgets, money and other economic units, is a lens into the future of the “new world economy.” But it’s misunderstood, disparaged, cheated and even sentimentalized by the national media portraying it from its Big Brother perspective. PURO BORDER is a remedy to that bias, creating a collage rooted in the best writing from both sides of the border, plus photographs and grafitti revealing life en la frontera. In the 80s and 90s, with the militarization and fencing of the border, the United States became the prototype of the world’s largest gated community. The sibling of the militarization was NAFTA, the child of corporate America and bureaucratic America. The headlines are everywhere: U.S. Marines shoot and kill 17-year-old Esequiel Hernandez in Redford, Texas; Donaldo Luis Colossio is assassinated in a Tijuana barrio; gargantuan drug busts and equally huge deliveries of stuff across the line.But underneath the ink are millions of people who live and work in this cultural, linguistic and geographic soup. The indigenous peoples of the region, like the Tohono O’odham, will tell you that the border is a make-believe line. They know because it crosses through the heart of their ancient homeland. And in Juárez the line is real enough. There, over 300 young women, mostly workers in the booming maquila industries, have been disappeared. The media on the other side have mostly ignored this tragic fact.Mexican contributors include Francisco Vasquez Mendoza, Juan Villoro, Julian Herbert, Roberto Castillo Udiarte and Julian Cardona. Writers north of the line include Charles Bowden, Luis Alberto Urrea, Robert Draper, Leslie Marmon Silko, Debbie Nathan, Terrence Poppa, Gary Paul Nabhan, Ofelia Zepeda, Cecilia Balli, and Doug Peacock. Introduction by Bobby Byrd, and, as counterpoint, an Epilogue by Luis Humberto Crosthwaite, the Mexican editor.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Puro Border: Dispatches, Snapshots, & Graffiti from the US/Mexico Border. To get started finding Puro Border: Dispatches, Snapshots, & Graffiti from the US/Mexico Border, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: PURO BORDER, Dispatches, Snapshots and Graffiti from the U.S./Mexico Border, is the younger brother of Cinco Puntos’ successful collection of essays about the U.S./Mexico border: THE LATE GREAT MEXICAN BORDER, Reports from a Disappearing Line (now out of print). Both anthologies grew from Cinco Puntos’ frustration with the national media’s myopic reporting of the border.The U.S./Mexico border, with its frantic commerce in drugs, human beings, electronic gadgets, money and other economic units, is a lens into the future of the “new world economy.” But it’s misunderstood, disparaged, cheated and even sentimentalized by the national media portraying it from its Big Brother perspective. PURO BORDER is a remedy to that bias, creating a collage rooted in the best writing from both sides of the border, plus photographs and grafitti revealing life en la frontera. In the 80s and 90s, with the militarization and fencing of the border, the United States became the prototype of the world’s largest gated community. The sibling of the militarization was NAFTA, the child of corporate America and bureaucratic America. The headlines are everywhere: U.S. Marines shoot and kill 17-year-old Esequiel Hernandez in Redford, Texas; Donaldo Luis Colossio is assassinated in a Tijuana barrio; gargantuan drug busts and equally huge deliveries of stuff across the line.But underneath the ink are millions of people who live and work in this cultural, linguistic and geographic soup. The indigenous peoples of the region, like the Tohono O’odham, will tell you that the border is a make-believe line. They know because it crosses through the heart of their ancient homeland. And in Juárez the line is real enough. There, over 300 young women, mostly workers in the booming maquila industries, have been disappeared. The media on the other side have mostly ignored this tragic fact.Mexican contributors include Francisco Vasquez Mendoza, Juan Villoro, Julian Herbert, Roberto Castillo Udiarte and Julian Cardona. Writers north of the line include Charles Bowden, Luis Alberto Urrea, Robert Draper, Leslie Marmon Silko, Debbie Nathan, Terrence Poppa, Gary Paul Nabhan, Ofelia Zepeda, Cecilia Balli, and Doug Peacock. Introduction by Bobby Byrd, and, as counterpoint, an Epilogue by Luis Humberto Crosthwaite, the Mexican editor.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Puro Border: Dispatches, Snapshots, & Graffiti from the US/Mexico Border. To get started finding Puro Border: Dispatches, Snapshots, & Graffiti from the US/Mexico Border, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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