Coloniality of the US/Mexico Border : Power, Violence, and the Decolonial Imperative /

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National borders are often taken for granted as normal and necessary for a peaceful and orderly global civil society. Roberto D. Hernández here advances a provocative argument that borders--and border violence--are geospatial manifestations of long histories of racialized and gendered colonial viol...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Hernández, Roberto, 1979- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2018
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Violence > Mexican-American Border Region > Sociological aspects.
Violence > Mexican-American Border Region.
Ciudad Juárez (Mexico) > Social conditions.
El Paso (Tex.) > Social conditions.
Tijuana (Baja California, Mexico) > Social conditions.
San Ysidro (San Diego, Calif.) > Social conditions.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction. Coloniality of power, violence and the U-S///Mexico border
  • 1. At home in the nation: on the structural embeddedness of vigilantism and colonial racism
  • 2. Territorial violence and the structural location of border(ed) communities
  • 3. The 1984 McDonald's massacre and the politics of monuments, memory and militarization
  • 4. Las mujeres asesinadas de Juarez and the double-bind of their representation(ability)
  • 5. "The borders crossed us": anti-Mexican racism as anti-Indianism
  • Conclusion. Coloniality and the decolonial imperative.

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