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The border between the United States and Mexico is an incredibly contentious subject. It is an unending controversy. But learning some history may alleviate that issue, at least a modicum. Our two countries are connected, but separate. There has never been an all-encompassing nor correct perspective on the matter. For most of its existence, tension and cohesion has defined relations, governance, and culture along this imaginary boundary. It bled in both directions, not only through violence, but through interconnection. The history of the US-Mexico border is a long and winding one, much like the border itself. The line that separates America from Mexico has seen filibusters, wars, unity, freedom, restriction, militarization, smuggling, stealing, sneaking, barrier building, cultural solidarity, cooperation, deportation, and refuge. It’s up to the politicians of both sides to decide which of those things they want to emphasize in the future. The border remains a contentious issue, but in order to propose how to solve it, one must first know the history imbued in it. No decision is without context.
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*Bibliography*
Ernesto Castañeda, Building Walls: Excluding Latin People in the United States (Lanham, Mar.: Lexington Books, 2019). amzn.to/4ajF2n1
Linda B. Hall and Don M. Coerver, Revolution on the Border: The United States and Mexico, 1910-1920 (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1988). amzn.to/3yotKAl
Joseph Hall-Patton, "Great Excitement: Violent Incorporations of the American Southwest," dissertation, University of New Mexico, 2023. https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/hist_etds/341/
Alan Knight, US-Mexican Relations, 1910-1940: An Interpretation (San Diego, Cal.: Center for US-Mexican Studies, 1987).
Rachel St. John, Line in the Sand: A History of the Western US-Mexico Border (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2011). amzn.to/3O0TjLj
These Ragged Edges: Histories of Violence along the US-Mexico Border, edited by Andrew J. Torget and Gerardo Gurza-Lavalle (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2022). amzn.to/4bvIxaT
Samuel Truett, Fugitive Landscapes: The Forgotten History of the US-Mexico Borderlands (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2006). amzn.to/3JVpnzg
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TX vs NM: youtu.be/CTA10aruS6Y
Porfirio Diaz: youtu.be/-vssOQOCcH4
Neoliberalism: youtu.be/kBp69R_K1a0
1920 vs 2020: youtu.be/MiyEiNvYAv0
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The border between the United States and Mexico is an incredibly contentious subject. It is an unending controversy. But learning some history may alleviate that issue, at least a modicum. Our two countries are connected, but separate. There has never been an all-encompassing nor correct perspective on the matter. For most of its existence, tension and cohesion has defined relations, governance, and culture along this imaginary boundary. It bled in both directions, not only through violence, but through interconnection. The history of the US-Mexico border is a long and winding one, much like the border itself. The line that separates America from Mexico has seen filibusters, wars, unity, freedom, restriction, militarization, smuggling, stealing, sneaking, barrier building, cultural solidarity, cooperation, deportation, and refuge. It’s up to the politicians of both sides to decide which of those things they want to emphasize in the future. The border remains a contentious issue, but in order to propose how to solve it, one must first know the history imbued in it. No decision is without context.
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*Bibliography*
Ernesto Castañeda, Building Walls: Excluding Latin People in the United States (Lanham, Mar.: Lexington Books, 2019). amzn.to/4ajF2n1
Linda B. Hall and Don M. Coerver, Revolution on the Border: The United States and Mexico, 1910-1920 (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1988). amzn.to/3yotKAl
Joseph Hall-Patton, "Great Excitement: Violent Incorporations of the American Southwest," dissertation, University of New Mexico, 2023. https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/hist_etds/341/
Alan Knight, US-Mexican Relations, 1910-1940: An Interpretation (San Diego, Cal.: Center for US-Mexican Studies, 1987).
Rachel St. John, Line in the Sand: A History of the Western US-Mexico Border (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2011). amzn.to/3O0TjLj
These Ragged Edges: Histories of Violence along the US-Mexico Border, edited by Andrew J. Torget and Gerardo Gurza-Lavalle (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2022). amzn.to/4bvIxaT
Samuel Truett, Fugitive Landscapes: The Forgotten History of the US-Mexico Borderlands (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2006). amzn.to/3JVpnzg
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Connected videos
Why the Texas Revolution? youtu.be/lDWH-DC74Pk
Why the Mexican-American War? youtu.be/HTmSN4Exci0
California history playlist: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjnwpaclU4wUD7y8912ViyAtGfraKi9ru
TX vs NM: youtu.be/CTA10aruS6Y
Porfirio Diaz: youtu.be/-vssOQOCcH4
Neoliberalism: youtu.be/kBp69R_K1a0
1920 vs 2020: youtu.be/MiyEiNvYAv0
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