The Border Chronicle Weekly Roundup: May 1
Happy May Day! An audio deep dive into the National Defense Areas and a human rights archeologist speaks on the politics of haunting and border deaths.
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Driving While Brown: The Rise of Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio and the Latino Resistance That Defeated Him
A Q&A with journalists Jude Joffe-Block and Terry Greene Sterling on their new book chronicling Arizona's anti-immigrant movement.
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A Q&A with Human Rights Archaeologist Gabriella Soto
“For a long time, a big proportion of the American public said that border security was their most important issue. People are starting to realize what that means in terms of the violence entailed.”
‘This Will Kill People’: Laredo Landowners Fight Wall and Buoy Plan Threatening Flood-Prone Communities
As federal officials fast-track billions in border wall construction and floating buoy barriers, local leaders and residents say they’re in the dark, and fear the worst.
The Mystical and Militarized Desert
On the Spanish thriller Sirāt, the concept of Saharanism, and our reckoning with narratives about the U.S.-Mexico borderlands.
What’s Wrong with Mexico’s Right Wing? A Conversation with Alex González Ormerod
When Alex González Ormerod, editor of the Mexico Political Economist, started researching his book about the Mexican right wing, he