Ronald Rael | University of California Press, 2017 | Book
Michael Dea | Oxford University Press, 2015 | Book
Michael is a colleague at Berkeley and his book makes a clear case for what the title argues: Walls Wont Work! The book includes a history of the wall and is enriched by first hand knowledge of the border from his travels along its entire length.
Francisco Cantú | Riverhead Books, 2019 | Book
It is important to listen and speak to both sides and this book uniquely takes one on a journey of the borderlands from the perspective of a border patrol agent. Each story makes us more aware of the physical and emotional hardships faced by those on each side of the divide.
| Listen
Musician Glenn Weyant transforms the wall into an enormous instrument, drumming on it with "weapons of mass percussion" or playing it like a string instrument, sometimes performing alongside border patrol agents!
Marcello Di Cintio | Soft Skull Press, 2013 | Book
It's not only the US who is building walls — it's a global phenomenon. Marcello explains how walls are shaping peoples lives around the world from first-hand accounts during his travels.
Richard Misrach and Guillermo Galindo | Book
My friends and Oakland neighbors, Richard and Guillermo, were working on this at the same time I was putting together Borderwall as Architecture. Amazing photographs and instruments made of and from the borderlands. Galindo’s sounds are haunting and moving.
Brent Hoff | Watch
Directed by Brent Hoff, this short film inspired me to believe that bringing people to the wall on both sides was important to building social infrastructure along the border.
Patricia Leigh Brown | New York Times, 2019 | Article