When I wear my alligator boots : narco-culture in the US-Mexico borderlands / Shaylih Muehlmann.

When I Wear My Alligator Boots examines how the lives of dispossessed men and women are affected by the rise of narcotrafficking along the U.S.-Mexico border. In particular, the book explores a crucial tension at the heart of the ""war on drugs"": despite the violence and sufferi...

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Main Author: Muehlmann, Shaylih, 1979-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berkeley, California : University of California Press, [2014]
Series:California Series in Public Anthropology ; 33
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