borderlands

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• SOURCE: The Nation
  6/21/2023
  

  Cormac McCarthy's Brutal Allegories of the American Empire

  by Greg Grandin

  "McCarthy demonstrated how the frontier wasn’t an incubator of democratic equality but a place of unrelenting pain, cruelty, and suffering."

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• SOURCE: Inquest
  1/10/2023
  

  A History of Violence in the US/Mexico Borderlands

  by Brian Behnken

  Policing both the border and Mexican American communities in the Southwest has always been entangled with white supremacist violence, the author argues in a new book. 

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• SOURCE: Minnesota Public Radio
  8/12/2022
  

  Kelly Lytle Hernández on the Linked Histories of Mexico and the US

  "Many Americans don’t know that the histories of the United States and Mexico are inseparably intertwined. But historian Kelly Lytle Hernández says you cannot fully understand one without the other."

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• 9/26/2021
  

  The Border and the Contingent Status of Mexican Workers

  by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

  In this excerpt from her new book "Not 'A Nation of Immigrants'," Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz argues that the politics of the border and the racialization of Mexican laborers has been a longstanding and glaring exception to the American myth of welcoming immigrants. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  9/3/2021
  

  Americans Sought Safer Abortions in Mexico Before Roe, Too

  by Lina-Maria Murillo

  "No matter what antiabortion crusaders try, pregnant people will always find ways to have abortions — and networks that go beyond borders have long helped them navigate treatment options."

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  7/26/2021
  

  Pancho Villa, My Grandmother, and the Revolutionary History of the Border

  by Carlos Sanchez

  Conflicting family and neighborhood stories about the life of Pancho Villa – bandit or revolutionary? – showed the author how little of the complexity of the Mexican Revolution and the experiences of ethnic Mexican people made it into his school books in El Paso. Will new Texas laws push this knowledge back into the shadows? 

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• SOURCE: Public Books
  1/20/2021
  

  Solidarity is a Process: Talking with Kelly Lytle Hernandez, Josh Kun, and Destin Jenkins

  A panel of scholars discusses the concept of cross-racial solidarity and the prospects of creating powerful coalitions of the disempowered.