The U.S.-Mexico borderlands have historically been portrayed as a region of myth and romance in pop culture frontier imagination, but the reality of their past is much darker, as two new books are showing.

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https://www.axios.com/2022/12/20/border-us-mexico-violence

New books reveal U.S.-Mexico borderlands' real history

Scholars in recent years have released books exploring how historic violence contributed to systemic inequality.

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@russcontreras thanks for heads up. Looks interesting