Author: Diana Washington Valdez
Publisher: Peace at the Border
ISBN: 097779928X
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 447
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Explosive findings by a journalist's daring investigation into the systematic murders of girls and women in Juarez, Mexico.
Author: Diana Washington Valdez
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780977799220
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 430
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Hundreds of girls and young women are brutally killed or missing in Juarez, Mexico, and no one does anything about it. Most of the victims come from poor families. This explosive book reveals who is killing them and why. Across the border from El Paso, Texas, serial killers, drug dealers, gangs, and powerful men are getting away with murder. During this dangerous investigation, people wanting to help were killed or threatened. The shocking conclusions are revealed in this extraordinary book. The notorious crimes attracted the attention of human rights activists, and brought FBI experts, among others, to the border. The gruesome deaths led to a wave of terror among residents of Juarez as people on the U.S. side of the border looked on helplessly.
Author: Diana Washington Valdez
Publisher: Peace at Theborder
ISBN: 9780615140087
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 390
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This explosive book exposes the Mexican killing fields that claimed the lives of hundreds of women at the Juarez, Mexico, border. The authors dangerous investigation reveals high-level corruption, a drug cartel run amok, and more. This the first nonfiction book in English about the murders that attracted international attention.
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Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1668008718
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 464
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Author: Rafael Luvano
Publisher: Orbis Books
ISBN: 1608331121
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 193
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A startling analysis of the killing of over 500 women in Ju rez to help readers understand the presence of suffering and evil. Making expert use of narrative theology, Prof. Lu vano uses the killing of over 500 women since 1993 in Ciudad Ju rez as a lens to examine and attempt to understand the role that suffering plays in God's love and relationship with humankind. The first three chapters that form Part I describe events in northern Mexico that provide the context for the killing of young women. The five chapters in the second part examine different themes within the broad context of theodicy the nature of God, the traditional teaching of the church, and contemporary theological approaches to human suffering (e.g., Soelle, Wiesel, Moltman).
Author: Rosemary Hennessy
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 145294010X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 344
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The history of the maquiladoras has been punctuated by workers’ organized resistance to abysmal working and living conditions. Over years of involvement in such movements, Rosemary Hennessy was struck by an elusive but significant feature of these struggles: the extent to which organizing is driven by attachments of affection and antagonism, belief, betrayal, and identification. What precisely is the “affective” dimension of organizing for justice? Are affects and emotions the same? And how can their value be calculated? Fires on the Border takes up these questions of labor and community organizing—its “affect-culture”—on Mexico’s northern border from the early 1970s to the present day. Through these campaigns, Hennessy illuminates the attachments and identifications that motivate people to act on behalf of one another and that bind them to a common cause. The book’s unsettling, even jarring, narratives bring together empirical and ethnographic accounts—of specific campaigns, the untold stories of gay and lesbian organizers, love and utopian longing—in concert with materialist theories of affect and the critical good sense of Mexican organizers. Teasing out the integration of affect-culture in economic relations and cultural processes, Hennessy provides evidence that sexuality and gender as strong affect attractors are incorporated in the harvesting of surplus labor. At the same time, workers’ testimonies confirm that the capacities for bonding and affective attachment, far from being entirely at the service of capital, are at the very heart of social movements devoted to sustaining life.
Author: Oscar J. Martínez
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 0816538190
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 345
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Juárez is no ordinary city. Its history is exhilarating and tragic. Part of the state of Chihuahua and located on the border with the United States opposite El Paso, Texas, Juárez has often captured the world’s attention in dramatic fashion. In Ciudad Juárez: Saga of a Legendary Border City, Oscar J. Martínez provides a historical overview of the economic and social evolution of this famous transnational urban center from the 1848 creation of the international boundary between Mexico and the United States to the present, emphasizing the city’s deep ties to the United States. Martínez also explores major aspects of the social history of the city, including cross-border migration, urbanization, population growth, living standards, conditions among the city’s workers, crime, and the circumstances that led to the horrendous violence that catapulted Juárez to the top rung of the world’s most violent urban areas in the early twenty-first century. In countless ways, the history of Juárez is the history of the entire Mexican northern frontier. Understanding how the city evolved provides a greater appreciation for the formidable challenges faced by Mexican fronterizos and yields vital insights into the functioning of borderland regions around the world.
Author: Chris Andrews
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231537530
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 305
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Since the publication of The Savage Detectives in 2007, the work of Roberto Bolaño (1953–2003) has achieved an acclaim rarely enjoyed by literature in translation. Chris Andrews, a leading translator of Bolaño's work into English, explores the singular achievements of the author's oeuvre, engaging with its distinct style and key thematic concerns, incorporating his novels and stories into the larger history of Latin American and global literary fiction. Andrews provides new readings and interpretations of Bolaño's novels, including 2666, The Savage Detectives, and By Night in Chile, while at the same time examining the ideas and narrative strategies that unify his work. He begins with a consideration of the reception of Bolaño's fiction in English translation, examining the reasons behind its popularity. Subsequent chapters explore aspects of Bolaño's fictional universe and the political, ethical, and aesthetic values that shape it. Bolaño emerges as the inventor of a prodigiously effective "fiction-making system," a subtle handler of suspense, a chronicler of aimlessness, a celebrator of courage, an anatomist of evil, and a proponent of youthful openness. Written in a clear and engaging style, Roberto Bolano's Fiction offers an invaluable understanding of one of the most important authors of the last thirty years.
Author: K. Concannon
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230103324
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 265
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With its focus on Latina/o communities in the United States, this collection of essays identifies and investigates the salient narrative and aesthetic strategies with which an individual or a collective represents transnational experiences and identities in literary and cultural texts.
Author: Nancy Pineda-Madrid
Publisher: Fortress Press
ISBN: 0800698479
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 202
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Nancy Pineda-Madrid re-conceives traditional Christian notions of salvation by closing attending to the experience of the embattled women of Ciudad Ju rez in Mexico, where hundreds have been slain and where survivors have found healing and salvation in solidarity and community practices that resist rather than acquiesce in the violence.
