The Border Crossed Us : Rhetorics of Borders, Citizenship, and Latina/o Identity /

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"The Border Crossed Us explores efforts to restrict and expand notions of US citizenship as they relate specifically to the US-Mexico border and Latina/o identity. Borders and citizenship go hand in hand. Borders define a nation as a territorial entity and create the parameters for national bel...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cisneros, Josue David, 1981- (Author)
Other Authors: Watson, Mary Elizabeth
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Tuscaloosa, Alabama : University Alabama Press, 2013.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Citizenship > Social aspects.
Emigration and immigration.
Ethnic relations.
Mexican Americans > Civil rights.
Mexican Americans > Ethnic identity.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > General.
Americains d'origine mexicaine > Droits > Histoire.
Americains d'origine mexicaine > Identite ethnique.
Mexican Americans > Civil rights > History.
North America > Mexican-American Border Region.
Region frontaliere mexicano-americaine > Émigration et immigration.
Region frontaliere mexicano-americaine > Relations interethniques > Histoire.
Mexican-American Border Region > Emigration and immigration.
Mexican-American Border Region > Ethnic relations > History.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: On Border Crossings and the Crossing Border
  • 1. Negotiating the Border: Race, Coloniality, and Citizenship in Nineteenth-Century California
  • 2. Inhabiting the Border: Radical Rhetoric and Social Movement in 1960s New Mexico
  • 3. Rebordering the Nation: Hybrid Rhetoric in the Immigrant Marches of 2006
  • 4. Beyond Borders? Citizenship and Contemporary Latina/o and Immigrant Social Movements
  • Conclusion: Denaturalizing Borders and Citizenship.

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