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Record Nr.

UNINA9910454236903321

Autore

Lugo Alejandro <1962->

Titolo

Fragmented lives, assembled parts [[electronic resource] ] : culture, capitalism, and conquest at the U.S.-Mexico border / / Alejandro Lugo

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Austin, : University of Texas Press, 2008

ISBN

0-292-79420-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (340 p.)

Disciplina

331.700972/16

Soggetti

Offshore assembly industry - Employees - Mexico - Ciudad Juárez

Electronic books.

Ciudad Juárez (Mexico) Social conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-301) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Sixteenth-century conquests (1521-1598) and their postcolonial border legacies -- The invention of borderlands geography : what do Aztlán and Tenochtitlán have to do with Ciudad Juárez/Paso del Norte? -- The problem of color in Mexico and on the U.S.-Mexico border : precolonial, colonial, and postcolonial subjectivities -- Culture, class, and gender in late twentieth-century Ciudad Juárez -- Maquiladoras, gender, and culture change -- The political economy of tropes, culture, and masculinity inside an electronics factory -- Border inspections : inspecting the working-class life of maquiladora workers on the U.S-Mexico border -- Culture, class, and union politics : the daily struggle for chairs inside a sewing factory in the larger context of the working day -- Women, men, and "gender" in feminist anthropology : lessons from northern Mexico's maquiladoras -- Alternating imaginings -- Reimagining culture and power against late industrial capitalism and other forms of conquest through border theory and analysis.