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Border spaces : visualizing the U.S.-Mexico frontera /

The built environment along the U.S.-Mexico border has long been a hotbed of political and creative action. In this volume, the historically tense region and visually provocative margin--the southwestern United States and northern Mexico--take center stage. From the borderlands perspective, the symb...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Morrissey, Katherine G. (Editor), Warner, John-Michael H. (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Tucson : The University of Arizona Press, [2018]
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Part I.A conversation on border landscapes through time / Samuel Truett and Maribel Alvarez
  • Monuments, photographs, and maps: visualizing the U.S.-Mexico border in the 1890's / Katherine G. Morrissey
  • Fencing the line: race, environment, and the changing visual landscape at the U.S.-Mexico divide / Mary E. Mendoza
  • Open border: the national press and the promotion of transnational commerce, 1940-1965 / Geraldo Lujan Cadava
  • Part II. A conversation on border art and space / Samelia Malagamba-Ansotegui and Sarah J. Moore
  • Stealth crossings: performjance art and games of power on the militarized border / Ila N. Sheren
  • How the border wall became a canvas: political art in the U.S.-Mexico border towns of Ambos Nogales / Margaret Regan
  • Visible frictions: the border film project and self-representation in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands / Rebecca M. Schreiber
  • A border art history of the vanishing present: land use and representation / John-Michael H. Warner.