Up against the wall : re-imagining the U.S.-Mexico border /

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"As increasing global economic disparities, violence, and climate change provoke a rising tide of forced migration, many countries and local communities are responding by building walls--literal and metaphorical--between citizens and newcomers. Up Against the Wall: Re-imagining the U.S.-Mexico...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Casey, Edward S., 1939- (Autor), Watkins, Mary M. (Autor)
Formato: Documento de Gobierno Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Austin, TX : University of Texas Press, 2014.
Edición:First edition.
Colección:Louann Atkins Temple women & culture series ; bk. 35.
Temas:
Universidad Sergio Arboleda
2000-2099
Mexicans > United States.
Mexican Americans.
Ecology.
Mexican Americans
Américains d'origine mexicaine.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > Hispanic American Studies.
Ecology
Mexicans
Social conditions
Grenze
Grenzgebiet
Mexican-American Border Region > Environmental conditions.
Mexican-American Border Region > Social conditions.
United States > Social conditions > 21st century.
Région frontalière mexicano-américaine > Conditions environnementales.
Région frontalière mexicano-américaine > Conditions sociales.
États-Unis > Conditions sociales > 21e siècle.
North America > Mexican-American Border Region
United States
Mexiko
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • List of illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Re-viewing la frontera : borders versus boundaries
  • La frontera as border and boundary
  • Ambos Nogales : a tale of two cities
  • Tijuana : the wall and the estuary
  • Wall and river in the Lower Rio Grande Valley
  • Postlude 1. Walled up and walled out
  • Looking both ways at the border
  • Prelude to Part 2. Friendship Park : first encounter
  • The creation of an internal colony : Santa Barbara, a city divided against itself
  • Juan Crow: the American ethnoracial caste system and the criminalization of Mexican migrants
  • The souls of anglos
  • Border-wall art as limit acts
  • Creating communities of hospitality : growing connective tissue between immigrants and citizens
  • Postlude 2. Gaining access to the heart of our home
  • Epilogue: From standing in the shadows of walls to imagining them otherwise
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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