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Amnesty International. “Mexico: Justice fails in Ciudad Juarez and the city of Chihuahua.” Last updated on February 28, 2005. https://web.archive.org/web/20120303095740/http://www.amnestyusa.org/node/55339. This archived news report describes the Juarez femicides and the inaction of local and national government.
Avery, Kevin J. “The Hudson River School.” In Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, October 2004). http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/hurs/hd_hurs.htm. This essay gives a brief overview of American landscape painters who are collectively referred to as “The Hudson River School” artists.
Bowden, Charles, and Julián Cardona. Exodus =: Éxodo. Bill and Alice Wright photography series. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2008. This beautiful book combines narrative, historical, and documentary writing that is accompanied by the photography of Julian Cardona, a Juarez photojournalist who documented decades of social, political, and economic issues in Juarez and the surrounding regions.
Castañeda Salgado, M. P. “Feminicide in Mexico: An approach through academic, activist and artistic work.” Current Sociology, 64 (2016), 1054-1070. https://doi.org/10.1177/0011392116637894. This article describes the cultural meaning and use of feminicide and its distinction from femicide.
Changing nature: population and environment at a crossroads. New York, N.Y.: Infobase, 2006. This video provides an overview of environmental crises faced by residents of Juarez, Mexico.
Chin, Corinne and Erika Schultz. “Disappearing Daughters.” The Seattle Times. March 8, 2020. https://projects.seattletimes.com/2020/femicide-juarez-mexico-border/. This visual journalism tells the story of the Juarez femicides from the perspective of victims’ family members, activists, and artists.
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Hines, Lewis Wickes, photographer. Addie Card, 12 years. Spinner in North Pormal i.e., Pownal Cotton Mill. Vt. Girls in mill say she is ten years. She admitted to me she was twelve; that she started during school vacation and new would "stay." E.F. Brown. Location: North Pownal, Vermont. North Pownal United States Vermont, 1910. February. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/2018675335/ This photograph taken by Lewis Hines demonstrates the common practice of using child labor in industrial mills in the United States in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
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Public Broadcasting Station. “Photographer Documents a Changing Juarez.” Accessed July 25, 2024. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/classroom/daily-videos/2023/08/photographer-documents-a-changing-juarez#daily-news-lessons. This classroom resource provides video interviews with documentary photojournalist Julian Cardona and background information about the violence in Juarez that has resulted from rapid industrialization.
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