Puro Border&mdash
Dispatches, Snapshots & Graffiti from La Frontera

$18.95

Edited by Luis Humberto Crosthwaite, John William Byrd, Bobby Byrd

The U.S./Mexico Border—with its frantic commerce in drugs, human beings, electronic gadgets, foodstuffs, money and other economic units—is a lens into the future of the "new world economy." But it's misunderstood, disparaged, cheated and even sentimentalized by the national media and federal governments which witness it from their "Big Brother" perspective. Puro Border is a remedy to that bias, creating a collage rooted in the best writing from both sides of the border, plus photographs and graffiti (corridos, newspaper clips and facts) revealing life en la frontera. The result is a book with a fronterizo perspective—an ornery, bull-headed book that stands contrary to the super-processed media bites spit out by the conglomerates.

Cinco Puntos Press, Softcover, 251pp

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