LEADER 05147nam 22007455 450 001 9910767576903321 005 20240314162954.0 010 $a9783030635572 010 $a3030635570 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-030-63557-2 035 $a(CKB)4100000011867288 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6533834 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL6533834 035 $a(OCoLC)1246578865 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-030-63557-2 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000011867288 100 $a20210322d2021 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aRhetoric and Reality on the U.S.-Mexico Border $ePlace, Politics, Home /$fby K. Jill Fleuriet 205 $a1st ed. 2021. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2021. 215 $a1 online resource (xx, 286 pages) $cillustrations 311 08$a9783030635565 311 08$a3030635562 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aChapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Home and Faraway Places -- Chapter 3: How We Tell the Stories We Tell -- Chapter 4: The Valley as the Border, the Border as a Dangerous, Faraway Place -- Chapter 5: The Valley in the Time of Trump, or Why the Border Stereotype is So Durable -- Chapter 6: The Border and the Valley as Home -- Chapter 7: "Border" Problems: Real and Otherwise -- Chapter 8: Crossing Borders: Partnerships and the Story of UTRGV -- Chapter 9: Flipping the Script about the Rio Grande Valley and the Border during Turbulent Times. 330 $aStemming from four years of ethnographic research, media analysis of over 750 national news articles published in the 2010s, and decades of the author's professional and personal immersion in the Rio Grande Valley of south Texas, Rhetoric and Reality illuminates a place at the heart of our national conversation: the U.S.-Mexico border. K. Jill Fleuriet contrasts the rhetoric of national political and media discourse with that of local border leaders in economics, health care, politics, education, law enforcement, philanthropy, and activism. As she deconstructs the common narrative of a border in need of external intervention to control corruption, poverty, sickness, and violence, Fleuriet engagingly illustrates the range of regional organizing, local development strategies, and community responses in the borderlands that ultimately situate the Rio Grande Valley as the "true North" of the U.S. national compass-where the Valley goes, the rest of the country soon will follow. Rhetoric and Reality asks us to question our own assumptions, especially about those areas that drive national decisions about resource allocation, economic development and national security. "Rhetoric and Reality is an important ethnographic study of the deeply misunderstood, increasingly vilified, Rio Grande Valley located on the Texas-Mexico border. Fleuriet presents a balanced counter-narrative that that shows the region as one of growth, innovation, complexity, and rich with meaning. Rhetoric and Reality is an excellent example of place-based, reflexive scholarship appropriate for use in courses on border theory, applied anthropology, and research methods. Written clearly and crisply with a wide readership in mind, Rhetoric andReality is mandatory reading for those wanting to better understand the US-Mexico border region and the people who live there." --Margaret A. Graham, Professor and Chair, The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, USA "This is an important book, as it describes life in the Rio Grande Valley rather than 'on the border.' The notion of 'the border' as an open range in need of external help is challenged, as the author illustrates the wide range of leadership and programmatic change occurring in the Rio Grande Valley." --Roberto R. Alvarez, Professor Emeritus of Ethnic Studies, University of California, San Diego, USA. 606 $aApplied anthropology 606 $aEthnology 606 $aEmigration and immigration$xSocial aspects 606 $aSociology 606 $aAmerica$xPolitics and government 606 $aMass media 606 $aApplied Anthropology 606 $aEthnography 606 $aSociology of Migration 606 $aPublic Sociology 606 $aAmerican Politics 606 $aMedia Sociology 615 0$aApplied anthropology. 615 0$aEthnology. 615 0$aEmigration and immigration$xSocial aspects. 615 0$aSociology. 615 0$aAmerica$xPolitics and government. 615 0$aMass media. 615 14$aApplied Anthropology. 615 24$aEthnography. 615 24$aSociology of Migration. 615 24$aPublic Sociology. 615 24$aAmerican Politics. 615 24$aMedia Sociology. 676 $a305.8009721 676 $a305.8009721 700 $aFleuriet$b Kathryn Jill$01453367 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910767576903321 996 $aRhetoric and reality on the U.S.-Mexico border$93655960 997 $aUNINA