All night at the Owl: the social and political relations of Mexicali's red-light district, 1913-1925.

Journal of the Southwest | December 22, 2001| | Copyright

What is in the name Mexicali? Engineers and planners at the turn of the century crafted the place-name Mexicali and that of its border twin, Calexico, as monuments to the transborder irrigation project that integrated Baja California's Mexicali Valley and California's Imperial Valley into a single regional economic unit. Scholars of the U.S.-Mexico border point to the construction of this twin city and the transformation of the Colorado Desert into a modern zone of commercial agriculture as testimony to the triumph of international capitalism and symbiotic relations. (1)

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