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This thought-provoking book examines gang history in the region encompassing West Texas, Southern New Mexico, and Northern Chihuahua, Mexico. Known as the El Paso-Juárez borderland region, the area contains more than three million people spanning 130 miles from east to west. Mike Tapia examines this region by exploring a century of historical developments through a criminological lens and by studying the diverse subcultures on both sides of the law.

Pervasive myths of European domination and indigenous submission in the Americas receive an overdue corrective in this far-reaching revisionary work. Within the indigenous borderlands of the Americas, as this volume shows, Native peoples exercised considerable power, often retaining control of the land, and remaining paramount agents of historical transformation after the European incursion. Conversely, European conquest and colonialism were typically slow and incomplete, as the newcomers struggled to assert their authority.

The Stories from Ukraine podcast shines a light on the unsung heroes of the war in Ukraine be they refugees or volunteers. The Borderlands Foundation is a registered non profit in the USA. It provides 24/7 real human support to people inside and outside of Ukraine in the most effective form we can deliver it. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In her new podcast, Sarah Towle, author of Crossing the Line: Finding America in the Borderlands, pushes back against the media disinformation machine by offering a narrative that puts people at the center of the immigration discussion.Join Sarah as she provides commentary on current events and speaks to immigration advocates and experts as well as people caught under the system's cruel knee, all while sharing excerpts from Crossing the Line that spotlight the extraordinary efforts of ordinary people working to tear down the walls that divide us. Sarah implores us to join their "...

Dispatches from Arizona—the front line of a massive human migration—including the voices of migrants, Border Patrol, ranchers, activists, and others For the last decade, Margaret Regan has reported on the escalating chaos along the Arizona-Mexico border, ground zero for immigration since...

The tall-but-true tale of a charismatic outlaw, an iconic small-town sheriff, and the record-setting drug bust that ensnared them both. Set in the rugged Texas borderlands, host Rob D’Amico transports listeners back to U.S. side of the border for the opening salvo of the War on Drugs … where so much dirty money was swirling across the Rio Grande that even the most incorruptible citizens would be tempted. In the tradition of films like No Country for Old Men and Charles Portis novels, Witnessed: Borderlands mashes up the shockingly real and the deeply surreal, chronicling not just the ...