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Description of  These Ragged Edges: Histories of Violence along the U.S.-Mexico Border (D.J. WEBER SERIES NEW BORDERLANDS)

The U.S.-Mexico border has earned an enduring reputation as a site of violence. During the past twenty years in particular, the drug wars fueled by the international movement of narcotics and vast sums of money have burned an abiding image of the border as a place of endemic danger into the consciousness of both countries. By the media, popular culture, and politicians, mayhem and brutality are often portrayed as the unavoidable birthright of this transnational space. Through multiple perspectives from both sides of the border, the collected essays in Read more