Cultural Writing. Art. Essays. Latino/Latina Studies. The magazine Traffic got it wrong! The Border--with its frantic commerce in drugs, human beings, electronic gadgets, 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 portraying it from its Big Brother perspective. PURO BORDER: DISPATCHES, SNAPSHOTS, & GRAFFITI FROM THE US/MEXIO BORDER is a remedy to that bias, creating a collage rooted in the best writing from both sides of the border, plus photographs and grafitti (corridas, newspaper clips and facts) revealing life en la frontera. Mexican contributors include Juan Villoro, Eduardo Antonio Parra, Julian Herbert, Julian Cardona and David Ojeda. Writers north of the line include Charles Bowden, Luis Urrea, Robert Draper, Cecilia Balli, Gary Nabhan and Doug Peacock. Introduction by Bobby Byrd, and, as counterpoise, an Epilogue by Luis Humberto Crosthwaite, the Mexican editor.

Author City: Tijuana MEX