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These days everyone has something to say (or declaim!) about the U.S.Mexico border. Whether its immigration, resource management, educational policy, or drugs, the borderlands are either the epicenter or the emblem of a current crisis facing the nation. At a time when the region has been co-opted for every possible rhetorical use, what endures is a resilient and vibrant local culture that resists easy characterization. For an honest picture of life on the border, what remains is to listen to voices that are too often drowned out: the people who actually live and work there, who make their homes and livings amid a confluence of cultures and loyalties. For many of these people, the border is less a hyphenated place than a meeting place, a merging. This aspect of the border is epitomized in the names of two cities that straddle the line: Calexico and Mexicali. A sleepy crossroads that exists at a global flashpoint, Calexico serves as the reference point for veteran journalist Peter Laufers chronicle of day-to-day life on the border. This wide-ranging, interview-driven book finds Laufer and travel companion/photographer on a weeklong road trip through the Imperial Valley and other bord

Author

Peter Laufer

Publisher

Tucson: University of Arizona Press

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9780816505289

Subjects

History, Humanities