Crossing borders, reinforcing borders : social categories, metaphors, and narrative identities on the U.S.-Mexico frontier /

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Vila, Pablo, 1952- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Austin : University of Texas Press, 2000.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Inter-America series.
Subjects:
Group identity > Mexico > Ciudad Juárez.
Group identity > Texas > El Paso.
Group identity > Mexican-American Border Region.
Identité collective > Mexique > Ciudad Juárez.
Identité collective > Texas > El Paso.
Identité collective > Région frontalière mexicano-américaine.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > General.
Group identity
Social conditions
Grensgebieden.
Groepsvorming.
Immigranten.
Ciudad Juárez (Mexico) > Social conditions.
El Paso (Tex.) > Social conditions.
Mexican-American Border Region > Social conditions.
Région frontalière mexicano-américaine > Conditions sociales.
Mexico > Ciudad Juárez
North America > Mexican-American Border Region
Texas > El Paso
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • PREFACE
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • INTRODUCTION
  • Chapter 1. THE MEXICAN SIDE: DISCOURSES OF REGION
  • Chapter 2. THE MEXICAN SIDE: DISCOURSES OF NATION
  • Chapter 3. THE EMPLOTMENT OF THE MEXICAN ON THE U.S. SIDE OF THE BORDER
  • Chapter 4. MEXICAN IMMIGRANTS AND THE "ALL POVERTY IS MEXICAN" NARRATIVE PLOT
  • Chapter 5. OPERATION BLOCKADE, OR WHEN PRIVATE NARRATIVES WENT PUBLIC
  • Chapter 6. DIALOGICAL SOCIAL SCIENCE AND THE POSSIBILITY OF NARRATING BETTER STORIES
  • Appendix. CATEGORIES, INTERPELLATIONS, METAPHORS, AND NARRATIVES: A BRIEF THEORETICAL DISCUSSION
  • NOTES.

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