Border odyssey : travels along the US/Mexico divide / Charles D. Thompson, Jr.

"Border Odyssey takes us on a drive toward understanding the U.S./Mexico divide: all 1,969 miles -- from Boca Chica to Tijuana -- pressing on with the useful fiction of a map ... Along the journey, five centuries of cultural history (Indigenous, French, Spanish, Mexican, African American, colon...

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Main Author: Thompson, Charles D., Jr. (Charles Dillard), 1956- (Author)
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Language:English
Published: Austin, Texas : University of Texas Press, 2015.
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520 |a This compelling chronicle of a journey along the entire U.S.-Mexico border shifts the conversation away from danger and fear to the shared histories and aspirations that bind Mexicans and Americans despite the border walls. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0 |a Evidence of things not seen -- The border etched in bones -- Traveling the Valley of the Shadow -- Two kinds of flight -- Of roads, fences, and neighbors -- Boca Chica sunset -- The ghosts of Palmito Ranch -- El ranchero -- Border guards -- Brownsville raids -- Rio Grande guardians -- Progress? -- World's most honest man -- Cowboy priests -- The hand-drawn ferry -- Prohibition bar -- Border walker -- The road to Eagle Pass -- Border ambassador -- The last stay at Del Rio -- Seminole Canyon -- Braceros in murder city -- Fort Davis and the Buffalo Soldiers -- National park on the line -- Pancho Villa and the Pink Store -- Smoke on the Apacheria -- A grandmother mourns at the wall -- Fences and neighbors -- Ground zero of the border crisis -- Altar and sacrifice -- Phoenix rising -- Tohono sacred peak and desert deaths -- Campesinos Sin Fronteras -- The wall of shame and entrepreneurship -- Graves of unknown farmworkers -- Desert view tower and the X-Men -- Walking alone through Friendship Park -- As if it were not there. 
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