On the Edge grew out of a lifetime spent living and traveling across the American Southwest, from San Antonio to Los Angeles. Char Miller examines this borderland region through a native’s eyes and contemplates its considerable conflicts. Internal to the various US states and Mexico’s northern tier, there are struggles over water, debates over undocumented immigrants, the criminalizing of the border, and the region’s evolution into a no-man’s land.
The book investigates how we ...
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Introduction: Center Points
1. Alamo City
White Gold
City Brew
Organizing for War
Political Legend
Buyer’s Remorse
Danger: Work Ahead
Holy Moses!
Repairing Eden...
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Char Miller, who grew up in Darien, CT, received his BA from Pitzer College, and his MA and Ph.D. from The Johns Hopkins University. For 26 wonderful years, he taught...
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