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"Papers ... first presented at a conference in April 1975 in San Antonio. "I. The culture of the border. The cultural roots of the border : and archaeologists view / Ignacio Bernal -- The borderlands : ideas on a leafless landscape / Joe B. Frantz -- The culture of the frontier : the Mexican side / Carlos Monsiváis -- The problem of identity in a changing culture : popular expressions of culture conflict along the lower Río Grande border / Américo...
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"The U.S.-Mexican border has become an increasingly important subject of study. Coerver and Hall have added to this literature by producing a well-researched and well-written monograph of the border within the context of state and federal government policies during the Mexican Revolution. That conflict, with its threat to both the security and sovereignty of Texas and the United States, generated disputes over which policies and roles should be carried...
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"The U.S.-Mexico border is the busiest in the world, the longest and most dramatic meeting point of a rich and poor country, and the site of intense confrontation between law enforcement and law evasion. Border control has changed in recent years from a low-maintenance and politically marginal activity to an intensive campaign focusing on drugs and migrant labor. Yet the unprecedented buildup of border policing has taken place in an era otherwise...
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