The guest editors of Afterimage's new special issue explore how artists and activists are reimagining the U.S.–Mexico border through creative forms of resistance.
Author Michael Welch discusses the Bastille Effect, or the unique ways that former prisons and detention centers are transformed, both physically and culturally.
Author Sarah Bruhn on how immigrant women’s carework is as critical as public protest to contesting the hardships imposed by immigration enforcement practices.
Toffoli discusses the images & technologies that helped construct the Border Patrol's public image, the historical roots of today's surveillance culture along the U.S.–Mexico border, & why visual history remains essential for understanding contemporary debates over immigration & state power.
From a country music legend's sewing machine to the US–Mexico border, a new special issue of the "Journal of the American Musicological Society" uses everyday and extraordinary objects to reveal the many histories of American music.
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