LEADER 03393nam 2200553Ia 450 001 9910452832903321 005 20210524204332.0 010 $a1-299-45695-2 010 $a0-19-989799-9 035 $a(CKB)2550000001018766 035 $a(StDuBDS)AH24924714 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000860958 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12306184 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000860958 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10914996 035 $a(PQKB)10942919 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1107692 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1107692 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10686662 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL476945 035 $a(OCoLC)839386920 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001018766 100 $a20120905d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aWhy walls won't work$b[electronic resource] $erepairing the US-Mexico divide /$fMichael Dear 210 $aOxford ;$aNew York $cOxford University Press$dc2013 215 $a1 online resource (320 pages )$cillustrations, maps 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-19-989798-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 330 $bToday, 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 thissweeping 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 byboth 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 commandingoverview 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. 606 $aMexican-American Border Region$xHistory 606 $aBorderlands$zMexico 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aMexican-American Border Region$xHistory. 615 0$aBorderlands 676 $a972/.1 700 $aDear$b M. J$g(Michael J.)$0129641 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910452832903321 996 $aWhy walls won't work$91899724 997 $aUNINA