When I wear my alligator boots : narco-culture in the US-Mexico borderlands /

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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 sufferi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Muehlmann, Shaylih, 1979-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley, California : University of California Press, [2014]
Colección:California Series in Public Anthropology ; 33
Temas:
Drug control > Mexican-American Border Region.
Drug control > United States.
Drug traffic > Mexican-American Border Region.
Drug traffic > United States.
Rural poor > Mexico.
Lutte antidrogue > Région frontalière mexicano-américaine.
Lutte antidrogue > États-Unis.
Drogues > Trafic > Région frontalière mexicano-américaine.
Drogues > Trafic > États-Unis.
Pauvres en milieu rural > Mexique.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Infrastructure.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
Drug control.
Drug traffic.
Rural poor.
Social conditions
Grenze
Grenzgebiet
Drogenhandel
Drogenkriminalität
Gewalt
Gefängnis
Armut
Mexican-American Border Region > Social conditions.
Région frontalière mexicano-américaine > Conditions sociales.
Mexico.
North America > Mexican-American Border Region.
United States.
USA
Mexiko
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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