The Border reader / Gilberto Rosas and Mireya Loza, editors.

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"The Border Reader is an anthology which gathers previously published foundational works of humanities and interpretive social science scholarship on the U.S.-Mexico border. Edited by anthropologist Gilberto Rosas and American and Latinx studies scholar Mireya Roza, this Reader brings together essay...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Loza, Mireya (Editor)
Rosas, Gilberto, 1968- (Editor)
Language:English
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2023.
Subjects:
Emigration and immigration law > Mexican-American Border Region.
Mexican-American Border Region > Emigration and immigration > Social aspects.
Mexican-American Border Region > History.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / American / Hispanic American Studies.
HISTORY / United States / General.
Emigration and immigration law.
Emigration and immigration > Social aspects.
North America > Mexican-American Border Region.
History.
Genre:
History.
Physical Description:x, 691 pages : illustrations, maps, charts ; 23 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Empire and the origins of twentieth-century migration from Mexico to the United States / Gilbert G. González and Raúl Fernández
  • Legal violence : immigration law and the lives of Central American immigrants / Cecilia Menjívar and Leisy J. Abrego
  • Necro-subjection : on borders, asylum, and making dead to let live / Gilberto Rosas
  • Reimagining culture and power against late industrial capitalism and other forms of conquest through border theory and analysis / Alejandro Lugo
  • Tijuana Cuir / Sayak Valencia Triana
  • The United States, Mexico and machismo / Américo Paredes
  • The Spanish settlement of Texas and Arizona / Martha Menchaca
  • A place called home : a queer political economy of Mexican immigrant men's family experiences / Lionel Cantú
  • Migrations / Patricia Zavella
  • Changing Chicano narratives / Renato Rosaldo
  • Feminism on the border : from gender politics to geopolitics / Sonia Saldívar-Hull,
  • Trans-migrations : agency and confinement at the limits of sovereignty / Martha Balaguera
  • Carne, carnales, and the carnivalesque / José E. Limón
  • The erotic zone : sexual transgression on the U.S.-Mexican border / Ramón Gutiérrez
  • Medicalizing the Mexican : immigration, race, and disability in the early-twentieth-century United States / Natalia Molina
  • "Looking like a lesbian" : the organization of sexual monitoring at the United States-Mexican border / Eithne Luibhéid
  • Migrant melancholia : emergent discourses of Mexican migrant traffic in transnational space / Alicia Schmidt Camacho
  • "Awakening to a nightmare" : abjectivity and illegality in the lives of undocumented 1.5-generation Latino immigrants in the United States / Roberto G. Gonzales and Leo R. Chavez
  • Regions of refuge in the United States : issues, problems, and concerns for the future of Mexican-origin populations in the United States / Carlos G. Vélez-Ibáñez
  • The battle for the border : notes on autonomous migration, transnational communities, and the state / Néstor Rodríguez
  • Yo era Indígena : race, modernity and the transformational politics of transnational labor / Mireya Loza
  • Tijuana : hybridity and beyond : a conversation with Néstor García Canclini / Fiamma Montezemolo
  • The art of witness / Rosa-Linda Fregoso
  • Amnesty or abolition? Felons, iIllegals, and the case for a new abolition movement / Kelly Lytle Hernández
  • How to tame a wild tongue / Gloria Anzaldúa
  • "Wavering on the horizon of social being" : the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo and the legacy of its radical character in Ámerico Paredes's George Washington Gómez / María Josefina Saldaña-Portillo.