Fragmented Lives, Assembled PartsEstablished in 1659 as Misin de Nuestra Seora de Guadalupe de los Mansos del Paso del Norte, Ciudad Jurez is the oldest colonial settlement on the U. S. Mexico border and one of the largest industrialized border cities in the world. Since the days of its founding, Jurez has been marked by different forms of conquest and the quest for wealth as an elaborate matrix of gender, class, and ethnic hierarchies struggled for dominance. Juxtaposing the early