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Record Nr.

UNINA9910459761403321

Autore

Casey Edward S. <1939->

Titolo

Up against the wall : re-imagining the U.S.-Mexico border / / Edward S. Casey and Mary Watkins

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Austin, Texas : , : University of Texas Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

0-292-76831-1

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (313 p.)

Collana

Louann Atkins Temple Women & Culture Series ; ; Book thirty-five

Disciplina

305.868/72073

Soggetti

Mexicans - United States

Mexican Americans

Electronic books.

Mexican-American Border Region Environmental conditions

Mexican-American Border Region Social conditions

United States Social conditions 21st century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""List of Illustrations""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""Part 1. Re-viewing La Frontera: Borders versus Boundaries""; ""1. La Frontera as Border and Boundary""; ""2. Ambos Nogales: A Tale of Two Cities""; ""3. Tijuana: The Wall and the Estuary""; ""4. Wall and River in the Lower Rio Grande Valley""; ""Part 2. Looking Both Ways at the Border""; ""Prelude to Part 2. Friendship Park: First Encounter""; ""5. The Creation of an Internal Colony: Santa Barbara, a City Divided against Itself""

""6. Juan Crow: The American Ethnoracial Caste System and the Criminalization of Mexican Migrants""""7. The Souls of Anglos""; ""8. Border-Wall Art as Limit Acts""; ""9. Creating Communities of Hospitality: Growing Connective Tissue between Immigrants and Citizens""; ""Epilogue. From Standing in the Shadows of Walls to Imagining Them Otherwise""; ""Notes""; ""Color Section""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""