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1 online resource (241 pages) |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Cover; When I Wear My Alligator Boots; Title; Copyright; Dedication; CONTENTS; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Life at the Edges of the War on Drugs; 1. Narco-Wives, Beauty Queens, and a Mother's Bribes; 2. "When I Wear My Alligator Boots"; 3. "A Narco without a Corrido Doesn't Exist"; 4. The View from Cruz's Throne; 5. Moving the Money When the Bank Accounts Get Full; 6. "Now They Wear Tennis Shoes"; Conclusion: Puro pa'delante Mexico; Notes; References; Index. |
| Summary |
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 suffering brought on by drug cartels, for the rural poor in Mexico's north, narcotrafficking offers one of the few paths to upward mobility and is a powerful source of cultural meanings and local prestige. In the borderlands, traces of the drug trade are everywhere: from gang violence in cities to drug addiction. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Drug control -- Mexican-American Border Region.
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Drug control. |
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Drug control -- United States.
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United States. |
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Drug traffic -- Mexican-American Border Region.
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Drug traffic. |
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Drug traffic -- United States.
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Rural poor -- Mexico.
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Rural poor. |
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Mexico. |
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Mexican-American Border Region -- Social conditions.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Muehlmann, Shaylih, 1979- When I wear my alligator boots. Berkeley, California : University of California Press, [2014] xiv, 226 pages 9780520276772 9780520276789 (DLC) 2013018892 |
| ISBN |
9780520957183 (electronic book) |
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0520957180 (electronic book) |
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0520276787 |
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9780520276789 |
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9780520276772 (hardback) |
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9780520276789 (paperback) |
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