When I Wear My Alligator Boots: Narco-Culture in the U.S. Mexico Borderlands Volume 33

by Shaylih Muehlmann

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520276787
• ISBN13: 9780520276789
• Release Date: November 2013
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.2"