Border Optics: Surveillance Cultures on the Us-Mexico Frontier

by Camilla Fojas

Book Overview

Examines how the US-Mexico border is seen through visual codes of surveillance

When Donald Trump promised to "build a wall" on the U.S.-Mexico border, both supporters and opponents visualized a snaking barrier of concrete cleaving through nearly two thousand miles of arid desert. Though only 4 percent of the US population lives in proximity to the border, imagining what the wall would look like came easily to most Americans, in part...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 147980701X
• ISBN13: 9781479807017
• Release Date: June 2021
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.71 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"