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Borders are not just meaningless geographical lines. They have an impact on all of our lives, whether it's the fallout from Brexit or the inhumanity of a detention center. In Border Nation, Leah Cowan shows how borders are violent, oppressive, and must be resisted. Looking back, we learn of the elitist, colonial, and patriarchal origins of borders, explore the vital history of anti-racist, anti-border organizing and hear stories from people who have crossed partitions.

The 21st century has been an era of hardening borders-increased borderland patrols, surveillance, and militarization are widening the chasm between those who can vacation (or do business) where they please, and others whose movements are restricted by armed guards. But as journalist Todd Miller finds in Empire of Borders, the US border is also becoming increasingly fluid, expanding thousands of miles outside of US territory often to protect Washington's interests. 

During the 1840s and 1850s, a dangerous ferment afflicted the North-South border region, pitting the slave states of Maryland, Virginia, Kentucky, and Missouri against the free states of New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois. Aspects of this struggle - the underground railroad, enforcement of the fugitive slave laws, mob actions, and sectional politics - are well known as parts of other stories.

Gerónimo González Garza cruzó la frontera de México con Estados Unidos por primera vez en 1969. Desde entonces y hasta principios de los noventa, cuando finalmente se asentó legalmente en Texas, con su esposa e hijos, llevó una vida nómada. En Estados Unidos encontró oportunidades que nunca tuvo en su país. También encontró su voz. Como un sordomudo que no ha aprendido el lenguaje de señas, la frontera noreste del país carece de un lenguaje propio en estos tiempos de guerra. Y sin lenguaje, el pensamiento y la libertad se desvanecen.