The Kappe Library’s “Contested Spaces” series focuses on regions currently being shaped by violence and heightened partisan disputation.
During Summer 2024 the library added to its KL Research Guides four new guides:
Like KL’s other Research Guides these recommend books, articles and online resources that are available via the Kappe Library, or open access online. The guides emphasize design: the built environment, landscape design, planning, preservation and regional spatial traditions and practices, but also include socio-cultural and political histories to better understand each region.
Alvarez, C. J., Border Land, Border Water : A History of Construction on the US-Mexico Divide, University of Texas Press, 2019 (Available via ProQuest Ebook Central)
Bilbao, Tatiana, et al. (Editors), Two sides of the border: reimagining the region, Yale School of Architecture & Lars Muller, NA727.B55 2020.
Burian, Edward R., The Architecture and Cities of Northern Mexico from Independence to the Present, University of Texas Press, 2015 (Available via ProQuest Ebook Central)
Casey, Edward S. & Mary Watkins, Up Against the Wall : Re-Imagining the U. S. -Mexico Border, University of Texas Press, 2014 (Available via ProQuest Ebook Central)
Goldberg, Anne J., “Company Town, Border Town, Small Town: Transforming Place and Identities on the U.S.-Mexico Border,” Journal of the Southwest 48, no. 3 (2006): 275–306 (Available via Jstor)
Dear, Michael & Gustavo Leclerc (Editors), Postborder City : Cultural Spaces of Bajalta California, Taylor & Francis Group, 2003 (Available via ProQuest Ebook Central)
Kappe Library Research Guide: Architectures of Latin America & the Caribbean.
Kappe Library Research Guide: Military structures (See the tab "Borders")
Kappe Library Research Guide: Researching Hispanic Americans & architecture.
Kappe Library Research Guide: Researching Native Americans & architecture.
Longenbach, Adam, “Walls and the Virtues Of (Mis)Readings,” Log, no. 46 (2019): 93–101 (Available via Jstor)
Lybecker, Donna L., “The Policy of Border Fencing between the United States and Mexico: Permeability and Shifting Functions,” Journal of the Southwest 50, no. 3 (2008): 335–51 (Available via Jstor)
Rael, Ronald, Borderwall as architecture, University of California Press, F787.R33 2017
Romero, Fernando, Hyperborder : the contemporary U.S.-Mexico border and its future, Princeton Architectural Press, F787.R57 2008
Schaeffer, Felicity Amaya, Unsettled borders : the militarized science of surveillance on sacred indigenous land, Duke University Press, JV6475.S525 2022.
Transportation master plans:
Truett, Samuel, “The Ghosts of Frontiers Past: Making and Unmaking Space in the Borderlands,” Journal of the Southwest 46, no. 2 (2004): 309–50 (Available via Jstor)
U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Border wall system (Archived webpage)
Bonansinga, Kate, Curating at the Edge : Artists Respond to the U. S. /Mexico Border, University of Texas Press, 2014 (Available via ProQuest Ebook Central)
Chávez, Patricio & Madeleine Grynsztejn, La Frontera/The border : art about the Mexico/United States border experience, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, N6538. M4F77 1993
Fojas, Camilla, Border Bandits : Hollywood on the Southern Frontier, University of Texas Press, 2008 (Available via ProQuest Ebook Central)
Leclerc, Gustavo & Michael Dear, Mixed feelings : art and culture in the postborder metropolis = Sentimientos contradictorios : arte y cultura en la metrópolis posfronteriza, Fisher Gallery, University of Southern California, N6538.H58M58 2002.
Madrid, Alejandro L., Nor-Tec Rifa! : Electronic Dance Music from Tijuana to the World, Oxford University Press, 2008 (Available via ProQuest Ebook Central)
Massey, Douglas S., “The Mexico-U.S. Border in the American Imagination,” Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 160, no. 2 (2016): 160–77 (Available via Jstor)
Meléndez, A. Gabriel, Hidden Chicano Cinema : Film Dramas in the Borderlands, Rutgers University Press, 2013 (Available via ProQuest Ebook Central)
Sheren, Ila Nicole, Portable Borders : Performance Art and Politics on the U. S. Frontera Since 1984, University of Texas Press, 2015 (Available via ProQuest Ebook Central)
Shuler, Brandon D., et al. (Editors), New Border Voices : An Anthology, Texas A&M University Press, 2014 (Available via ProQuest Ebook Central)
Torrans, Thomas, Magic Curtain : The Mexican-American Border in Fiction, Film, and Song, Texas Christian University Press, 2002 (Available via ProQuest Ebook Central)
Barry, Tom, Border Wars, MIT Press, 2011 (Available via ProQuest Ebook Central)
Cantú, Francisco, The line becomes a river : dispatches from the border, Riverhead Books, JV6565.C37 2018.
Castillo-Muñoz, Verónica, The other California : land, identity and politics on the Mexican borderlands, University of California Press, F1246.C195 2017.
Díaz-Barriga, Miguel, Fencing in democracy : necrocitizenship and the US-Mexico border wall, Duke University Press, F787.D539 2020
Dear, Michael, Why Walls Won't Work : Repairing the US-Mexico Divide, Oxford University Press, 2013 (Available via ProQuest Ebook Central)
Donnan, Hastings, & Thomas W. Wilson (Editors), Borderlands : Ethnographic Approaches to Security, Power, and Identity, University Press of America, 2010 (Available via ProQuest Ebook Central)
Eichstaedt, Peter, The Dangerous Divide : Peril and Promise on the US-Mexico Border, Chicago Review Press, 2014 (Available via ProQuest Ebook Central)
Fregoso, Rosa Linda, MeXicana Encounters : The Making of Social Identities on the Borderlands, University of California Press, 2003 (Available via ProQuest Ebook Central)
Muehlmann, Shaylih, When I Wear My Alligator Boots : Narco-Culture in the U. S. Mexico Borderlands, University of California Press, 2013 (Available via ProQuest Ebook Central)
Stavans, Ilan (Editor), Border Culture, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2010 (Available via ProQuest Ebook Central)
Thompson, Charles D., Jr., Border Odyssey : Travels along the U. S. / Mexico Divide, University of Texas Press, 2015 (Available via ProQuest Ebook Central)
Velasco Ortiz, Laura & Oscar F. Contreras, Mexican Voices of the Border Region : Mexicans and Mexican Americans Speak about Living along the Wall, Temple University Press, 2011 (Available via ProQuest Ebook Central)
Chew, Selfa A., Uprooting Community : Japanese Mexicans, World War II, and the U. S. -Mexico Borderlands, University of Arizona Press, 2015 (Available via ProQuest Ebook Central)
Díaz, George T., Border Contraband : A History of Smuggling Across the Rio Grande, University of Texas Press, 2015 (Available via ProQuest Ebook Central)
Hernandez, Kelly Lytle, Migra! : A History of the U. S. Border Patrol, University of California Press, 2010 (Available via ProQuest Ebook Central)
Hernández, Marie Theresa, Delirio--The Fantastic, the Demonic, and the Réel : The Buried History of Nuevo León, University of Texas Press, 2002 (Available via ProQuest Ebook Central)
Mora-Torres, Juan, The Making of the Mexican Border : The State, Capitalism, and Society in Nuevo León, 1848-1910, University of Texas Press, 2001 (Available via ProQuest Ebook Central)
Wahlstrom, Todd W., The Southern Exodus to Mexico : Migration Across the Borderlands after the American Civil War, University of Nebraska Press, 2015 (Available via ProQuest Ebook Central)
Akers Chacón, Justin & Mike Davis, No One Is Illegal : Fighting Racism and State Violence on the U.S.-Mexico Border, Haymarket Books, 2006 (Available via ProQuest Ebook Central)
Bender, Steven W., Run for the Border : Vice and Virtue in U. S. -Mexico Border Crossings, New York University Press, 2012 (Available via ProQuest Ebook Central)
Indigenous Alliance Without Borders, “Handbook on Indigenous Peoples’ Border Crossing Rights Between the United States and Mexico”
Nevins, Joseph, Operation Gatekeeper and Beyond : The War on Illegals and the Remaking of the U. S. - Mexico Boundary, Taylor & Francis Group, 2010 (Available via ProQuest Ebook Central)
Simmons, William Paul & Carol Mueller (Editors), Binational Human Rights : The U. S. -Mexico Experience, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014 (Available via ProQuest Ebook Central)
Alvarez, C. J., Border Land, Border Water : A History of Construction on the US-Mexico Divide, University of Texas Press, 2019 (Available via ProQuest Ebook Central)
Bessesen, Brooke, Vaquita : Science, Politics, and Crime in the Sea of Cortez, Island Press, 2018 (Available via ProQuest Ebook Central)
Blake, Tupper Ansel, Two eagles : the natural world of the United States-Mexico borderlands = Dos Aguilas, University of California Press, Oversize shelf- QH104.5.S6B58 1994
Felder, Darryl L. & David K. Camp (Editors) Gulf of Mexico Origin, Waters, and Biota, Texas A&M University Press, 2009 (Available via ProQuest Ebook Central) Volume 1, Biodiversity; Volume 2, Ocean and coastal economy; Volume 3, Geology;
Horgan, Paul, Great River : The Rio Grand in North American History, Wesleyan University Press, 1991 (Available via ProQuest Ebook Central)
Morgan, Morgan Jane, Border Sanctuary : The Conservation Legacy of the Santa Ana Land Grant, Texas A&M University Press, 2015 (Available via ProQuest Ebook Central)
Phillips, Fred M., et al. (Editors), Reining in the Rio Grande : People, Land, and Water, University of New Mexico Press, 2011 (Available via ProQuest Ebook Central)
Schlyer, Krista, Continental Divide : Wildlife, People, and the Border Wall, Texas A&M University Press, 2012 (Available via ProQuest Ebook Central)
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, U.S.-Mexico Border Program.
