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Record Nr.

UNINA9910785790303321

Titolo

Border rhetorics [[electronic resource] ] : citizenship and identity on the US-Mexico frontier / / edited by D. Robert DeChaine

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Tuscaloosa, : University of Alabama Press, 2012

ISBN

0-8173-8605-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (284 pages)

Collana

Rhetoric, culture, and social critique

Altri autori (Persone)

DeChaineD. Robert <1961-> (Daniel Robert)

Disciplina

304.80972/1

Soggetti

Citizenship - Political aspects - United States

Rhetoric - Political aspects - United States

Noncitizens - United States

Border security - United States

Illegal immigration

Mexican-American Border Region Emigration and immigration Political aspects

Mexican-American Border Region Emigration and immigration Social aspects

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 (p. [235]-264) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: For rhetorical border studies / D. Robert DeChaine -- Borders that travel : matters of the figural border / Kent A. Ono -- Bordering as social practice : intersectional identifications and coalitional possibilities / Julia R. Johnson -- Border interventions : the need to shift from a rhetoric of security to a rhetoric of militarization / Karma R. Chávez -- A dispensational rhetoric in "the Mexican question in the Southwest" / Michelle A. Holling -- Mobilizing for national inclusion : the discursivity of whiteness among Texas Mexicans' arguments for desegregation / Lisa A. Flores and Mary Ann Villarreal -- the attempted legitimation of the vigilante civil border patrols, the militarization of the Mexican-US border, and the law of unintended consequences / Marouf Hasian Jr. and George F. McHendry Jr. -- Shot in the back : articulating the ideologies of the Minutemen through a political trial / Zach Justus -- Looking "illegal" : affect, rhetoric, and performativity in Arizona's Senate bill / Josue David Cisneros -- Love,



loss, and immigration : performative reverberations between a great-grandmother and great-granddaughter / Bernadette Marie Calafell -- Borders without bodies : affect, paroximity, and utopian imaginaries through "lines in the sand" / Dustin Bradley Goltz and Kimberlee Perez -- Transborder politics : the embodied call of conscience in traffic / Brian L. Ott and Diane M. Keeling -- Decriminalizing illegal immigration : immigrants' rights through the documentary lens / Anne Teresa Demo -- The ragpicker-citizen / Toby Miller – Afterword : Border optics / John Louis Lucaites.

Sommario/riassunto

Border Rhetorics is a collection of essays that undertakes a wide-ranging examination of the US-Mexico border as it functions in the rhetorical production of civic unity in the United States. A "border" is a powerful and versatile concept, variously invoked as the delineation of geographical territories, as a judicial marker of citizenship, and as an ideological trope for defining inclusion and exclusion. It has implications for both the empowerment and subjugation of any given populace. Both real and imagined, the border separates a zone of physical and symbolic exchange.