Bordertown

“This is micro-history at its best—illuminating a single community in ways that make life all along the border more vivid and palpable.”—David J. Weber, author of Bárbaros: Spaniards and Their Savages in the Age of Enlightenment

~David J. Weber

“Through words and images—brilliantly juxtaposed—this book profoundly challenges our sense of what it means to be American. Johnson and Gusky offer us a local history that is also the history of America—and they do so in an incredibly readable and humanized way.”—Samuel Truett, University of New Mexico

~Samuel Truett

“A fascinating picture in words and photographs of Roma, Texas, a little town on the Rio Grande where history is alive and contested daily. Anybody who thinks a fence is the solution to immigration should read this instructive book.”—Don Graham, author of Kings of Texas: The 150-Year Saga of an American Ranching Empire

~Don Graham

“Jeffrey Gusky's photographs and Benjamin Johnson's stories are haunting and elegiac.  At once stark and deeply felt, they are powerful and true.  These lands and their people are beautiful in their severe grace.”—From the foreword by Luis Alberto Urrea

 

~Luis Urrea

“This compelling blend of photographs and text vividly reflects the longstanding fluidity of America’s border with Mexico and how Hispanic culture has long defined one American town. The book is an important contribution to borderland studies and to debates about securing our national boundaries.”—John Rohrbach, Amon Carter Museum

~John Rohrbach

“Bordertown is a significant look into a complex and important region of the country unknown to the general public."—Laura Wilson, author of Avedon at Work: In The American West

~Laura Wilson

“Johnson’s ability as a storyteller makes this history book a valuable contribution to the understanding of the U.S.-Mexico border and its people.”—David Steinberg, Sunday Journal

~David Steinberg, Sunday Journal