Forging the tortilla curtain
Subtitle: cultural drift and change along the United States-Mexico border, from the Spanish era to the present
By: by Thomas Torrans.
Publisher: TCU Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Fort Worth
Language: eng
Number of pages: 424
Subjects: Acculturation -- Mexican-American Border Region -- History.; Social change -- Mexican-American Border Region -- History.; Mexican-American Border Region -- History.; United States -- Relations -- Mexico.; Mexico -- Relations -- United States.
Description: "Some have called it the tortilla curtain. Others have viewed it as a Third World entity where primitive conditions and poverty exist cheek-by-jowl with the latest marvels of the Information Age. But the border region between Mexico and the United States is more dynamic than ever since its transition into a sort of Mexamerica - a world fueled by corporate colonialism, the North American Free Trade Agreement (or NAFTA) and contraband of every stripe, from illegal drugs to illegal aliens.".

"Forging the Tortilla Curtain reveals how the region got to be that way."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 383-403) and index.