Books by Curtis Marez

Farm WorkerFuturism reveals that thehistorical role of technology has had much to do with depicting the lives offarm laborers-Mexican migrants in particular-in the United States. This bookexplores the friction between agribusiness and farm workers through the lens ofvisual culture.

As Marez shows, despite the state's best efforts to use the media to obscure the hypocrisies and failures of its drug policies-be they lurid descriptions of Chinese opium dens in the English popular press or Nancy Reagan's "Just Say No" campaign-marginalized groups have consistently opposed the expansion of state power that drug traffic.