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The Border reader
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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 anthropologis...
"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 essays that mobilize feminist, queer, Indigenous and critical ethnic studies perspectives to theorize the border region as a site of epistemic rupture and knowledge production"--
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- Creator
- Gilberto Rosas and Mireya Loza, editors
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- Books
- Language
- English
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- Durham : Duke University Press, 2023
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- x, 691 pages : illustrations, maps, charts ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 1478020253, 1478027193, 9781478024934, 9781478027195, 9781478020257, 1478024933
- OCLC
- on1366075454, on1393183871
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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