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Why Walls Won't Work: Repairing the US-Mexico Divide
Contributor(s): Dear, Michael (Author)
ISBN: 0199897980     ISBN-13: 9780199897988
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
OUR PRICE:   $55.10  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: February 2013
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BISAC Categories:
- Political Science | International Relations - General
- History | Latin America - Mexico
- History | United States - State & Local - Southwest (az, Nm, Ok, Tx)
Dewey: 972.1
LCCN: 2012031266
Physical Information: 0.93" H x 6.48" W x 9.39" (1.12 lbs) 286 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - Southwest U.S.
- Cultural Region - Mexican
 
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Why Walls Won't Work is a sweeping account of life along the United States-Mexico border zone, tracing the border's history of cultural interaction since the earliest Mesoamerican times to the present day. As soon as Mexicans, American settlers, and indigenous peoples came into contact along
the Rio Grande in the mid-nineteenth century, new forms of interaction and affiliation evolved. By the late-twentieth century, the border states were among the fastest-growing regions in both countries. But as Michael Dear warns, this vibrant zone of economic, cultural and social connectivity is
today threatened by highly restrictive American immigration and security policies as well as violence along the border. The U.S. border-industrial complex and the emerging Mexican narco-state are undermining the very existence of the third nation occupying the space between Mexico and the U.S.
Through a series of evocative portraits of contemporary border communities, Dear reveals how the promise and potential of this in-between nation still endures and is worth protecting.

Now with a new chapter updating this story and suggesting what should be done about the challenges confronting the cross-border zone, Why Walls Won't Work represents a major intellectual intervention into one of the most hotly-contested political issues of our era.