New Gold Rush, Same Genocide: Mining and Draining the Southwest Is Destroying Indigenous Communities in the Name of Sustainable Development
The US uses the Sonoran Desert both as a site to force non-white migrants to risk death and as a Hollywood film location to mimic Southwest Asia and North Africa through tropes of treasure hunting and fighting “terrorists,” a racist framing also deployed against Black and Brown migrants. This Western genre of representational imaginary—migration/voyage, treasure … New Gold Rush, Same Genocide: Mining and Draining the Southwest Is Destroying Indigenous Communities in the Name of Sustainable Development
