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| ISBN: | 9780520957183
0520957180
0520276787
9780520276789
9780520276772
9780520276789
0520276779
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Print version record.
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| Summary: | 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 suffering brought on by drug cartels, for the rural poor in Mexico's north, narcotrafficking offers one of the few paths to upward mobility and is a powerful source of cultural meanings and local prestige. In the borderlands, traces of the drug trade are everywhere: from gang violence in cities to drug addiction.
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| Other form: | Print version: Muehlmann, Shaylih, 1979- When I wear my alligator boots. Berkeley, California : University of California Press, [2014] xiv, 226 pages 9780520276772 9780520276789
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