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...Sophie Smith Copyright © 2017 Duke University Press 2017 A G A I N S T the D A Y No More Deaths: Direct Aid in the US-Mexico Border Zone Sophie Smith, Editor These essays were written just before the onset of the Trump administration. Since the time of writing, many of the direct aid projects...

...Raquel Gutiérrez Aguilar; Liz Mason-Deese In this essay, based on two concrete acts of violence against women in Mexico, I propose to link such violence with the counterinsurgency war against the people of Mexico in which, as a society, we have been immersed for more than a decade. Departing from...

...Melissa W. Wright Duke University Press 2006 Melissa W. Wright Public Women, Profit, and Femicide in Northern Mexico Since 2002, a social justice movement called Ni Una Mas has brought international attention...

...Sarah Hill Duke University Press 2006 Sarah Hill Purity and Danger on the U.S-Mexico Border, 1991–1994 Of this unrest I myself saw nothing. In private I observed that once in every generation, without fail...

...Tony Payan Duke University Press 2006 Tony Payan The Drug War and the U.S.-Mexico Border: The State of Affairs The U.S.-Mexico border has long been the set- ting for America’s longest war: the drug war. The first...

...Henry C. Schmidt Copyright © 1978 by Duke University Press 1978 The American Intellectual Discovery of Mexico in the 1920 s Henry C. Schmidt Relations between Mexico and the United States were strained throughout most of the 1920 s. Claims instituted in the nineteenth century were still...

...Eugene E. Rovillain Copyright © 1930 by Duke University Press 1930 The South Atlantic Quarterly Vol. XXIX JULY, 1930 Number 3 MEXICO: AN ANALYSIS AND A CONSTRUCTIVE SUGGESTION EUGENE E. ROVILLAIN University of Michigan I WHATEVER reasons brought the present conditions about in Mexico...

...Sam Law; Alan Cruz; Vanessa Nava Born of revolutionary struggles in the peripheries of Mexico City, the Panchos have spent the past three decades transforming land occupations into vibrant communities aiming to take charge of every aspect of their lives. To date, they have constructed eight...

...Amy Krauss This essay considers abortion politics as a struggle over our collective conditions of life and death. It brings the perspectives of feminist acompañantes in Mexico City and Xalapa, Veracruz, to bear on critical questions about forms of life, loss, care, and time. Although abortion...

... their normative frameworks and expanded abortion access. This dossier focuses specifically on Argentina, Colombia, and Mexico, which saw notable changes in the direction of abortion decriminalization and legalization. These developments are in stark contrast with the 2022 decision by the Supreme Court...

...Louis Martin Sears Copyright © 1913 by Duke University Press 1913 Slidell s Mission to Mexico Louis Martin Sears University of Chicago Our own times have witnessed so remarkable a growth of the imperialistic ideal that the story of our swift conquest of a con­ tinent is of lively present...

...Robert S. Smith Industrial Revolution in Mexico . By Mosk Sanford A. . Berkeley and Los Angeles : University of California Press , 1950 . Pp. xii , 331 . $3.75 . Copyright © 1951 by Duke University Press 1951 266 The South Atlantic Quarterly are wired networks...

...Laura A. Lewis Duke University Press 2006 Laura A. Lewis Home Is Where the Heart Is: Afro-Latino Migration and Cinder-Block Homes on Mexico’s Costa Chica The Museum of Afromestizo Cultures (Museo de las Culturas Afromestizas ‘‘Vicente...

...George Caffentzis The history of debt resistance has many lessons for those involved in the making of a new debtors’ movement in the United States. This article attempts to articulate these lessons by concentrating on the experience of the most important debtors’ movement in Mexico of the 1990s, El...

...China Medel This paper employs an abolitionist framework to understand direct-action humanitarian aid along the US-Mexico border. Focusing on my own experiences volunteering with No More Deaths, an organization providing critical aid along the US-Mexico border, I think through the role of care...

... but also with the biographies of the politi­ cians in the remainder of the South. NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY MONROE BILLINGTON ...

... subject. UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO STEVEN PHILIP KRAMER The Snarling Muse: Verbal & Visual Political Satire from Pope to Chur­ chill. By Vincent Caretta. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1983. Pp. x, 290. $25.00. Vincent Caretta s The Snarling Muse is a recent addition to an important line...

...Sophie Smith The political condition of the US-Mexico border has been deemed a homeland security crisis by governing authorities and a crisis of death and disappearance by aid workers and activists. As the US Border Patrol delivers temporary and permanent military-style policing structure to armor...

... questions that the march of these families provoked in us as we watched them cross Mexico, this essay calls on feminisms and women’s struggles from around the world to deploy a particular anti-racist feminism. This antiracist feminism embraces the migrant feminism of the women and children who, by migrating...

... up” illegal immigrants along the Arizona-Mexico border in order to turn them over to CBP Border Patrol. The group claims that ranching businesses are suffering due to the damage done to cattle and properties by the passage of illegal immigrants on borderlands and that these immigrants are real...