San Antonio College Library

Traces the social and economic evolution of Ciudad Juarez, the largest city on the U.S.-Mexican border and one of the fastest-growing urban centers in the world.

The seminal history of the iconic Mexican border city by the founder of border studies--Provided by publisher.

Describes the struggle Mexican law enforcement has faced to control the drug traffic epidemic in Juárez, reflecting upon the lives of four people at the heart of the drug war--a drug lord's mistress, a human rights activist, a photojournalist, and Juárez's mayor.

"When prints had been made, C.L. Sonnichsen, author of many books on Southwestern literature and history, and Millard G. McKinney, El Paso photographer and historian, undertook the task of identifying the photographs as completely as possible. One set of prints was placed the library of the University of Texas at El Paso; another set and the original negatives were placed in the El Paso Public Library. The photographs which appear in this volume were...

"An ethnography that explores the role of religion, gender, and class in the formation of social identity on both sides of the US-Mexico border. A continuation of the study Vila began in Crossing Borders, Reinforcing Borders"--Provided by publisher.

"This book is a colorful and dynamic visual history of Mexico's northern border that draws on more than three decades of archival work and tells the history of border towns through picture postcards"-- "Just a trolley ride from El Paso, Ciudad Juárez was a popular destination in the early 1900s. Enticing and exciting, tourists descended on this and other Mexican border towns to browse curio shops, dine and dance, attend bullfights, and perhaps escape...

"In the late 1980s and 1990s, street gang members from the impoverished Segundo Barrio in El Paso, Texas, united in the Texas prison system to create the Barrio Aztecas gang. They quickly rose to power in the Texas prison system and ultimately became a powerful transnational criminal organization. Kolb describes the prison dynamic of predator and prey and the need for the prey to unify for protection against gangs such as the Texas Syndicate and Texas...

Study of woman workers in export oriented industries on the northern frontier in Mexico - based on a field study (1978-1979) in Ciudad Juarez, discusses industrial worker demographic aspects, educational level, wage differentials, working conditions, obstacles to trade unionization, seasonal unemployment, underemployment, labour market segmentation, employees attitudes and social implications of the Border Industrialization Program based on multinational...