Border Archives - Public Books https://www.publicbooks.org/tag/border/ a magazine of ideas, arts, and scholarship Sat, 17 Jan 2026 02:19:25 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.publicbooks.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/cropped-favicon-2-300x300.png Border Archives - Public Books https://www.publicbooks.org/tag/border/ 32 32 The Big Picture: Building the Wall https://www.publicbooks.org/big-picture-building-wall/ Fri, 27 Oct 2017 14:59:44 +0000 http://www.publicbooks.org/?p=16456 Since November 2016, I’ve unfriended one family member on Facebook, and have been tempted to unfriend others. I blocked a cousin who lives in Texas and posted about Mexicans taking American jobs. It wasn’t anything beyond the pale; no matter how much research complicates this idea, it’s one of the most common assertions of the […]

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