One of the most recent books to be indexed by Southwest Humanities, Rafael Acosta Morales’s forthcoming Drug Lords, Cowboys, and Desperadoes: Violent Myths of the U.S.-Mexico Frontier (Notre Dame University Press, 2021) “examines the relationship between affect, narrative, and violence surrounding three historical archetypes—social bandits (often associated with the drug trade), cowboys, and desperadoes—and how these narratives create affective loops that recreate violent structures in the Mexican American frontier.” Including discussions of work by Américo Paredes, Luis G. Inclán, Clint Eastwood, Rolando Hinojosa, Yuri Herrera, and Cormac McCarthy, “Drug Lords, Cowboys, and Desperadoes demonstrates how these stories led to recreated violence and criminalization of minorities, a conversation especially important during this time of recognizing social inequality and social injustices.”
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