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The Border Reader

The Border Reader

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Introduction: On Theories from the Ends / Gilberto Rosas and Mireya Loza  1
Part I: Locating the Border
1. Empire and the Origins of Twentieth-Century Migration from Mexico to the United States / Gilbert G. González and Raúl Fernández  11
2. Legal Violence: Immigration Law and the Lives of Central American Immigrants / Cecilia Menjívar and Leisy J. Abrego  43
3. Necro-Subjection: On Borders, Asylum, and Making Dead to Let Live / Gilberto Rosas  85
4. Reimagining Culture and Power against Late Industrial Capitalism and Other Forms of Conquest through Border Theory and Analysis / Alejandro Lugo  106
5. Tijuana Cuir / Sayak Valencia Triana  134
Part II: Documenting Identities
6. The United States, Mexico and Machismo / Américo Paredes  147
7. The Spanish Settlement of Texas and Arizona / Martha Menchaca  166
8. A Place Called Home: A Queer Political Economy of Mexican Immigrant Men’s Family Experiences / Lionel Cantú  199
9. Migrations / Patricia Zavella  222
Part III: En/Gendering Borders
10. Changing Chicano Narratives / Renato Rosaldo  265
11. Feminism on the Border: From Gender Politics to Geopolitics / Sonia Saldívar-Hull  282
12. Trans-migrations: Agency and Confinement at the Limits of Sovereignty / Martha Balaguera  301
13. Carne, Carnales, and the Carnivalesque / José E. Limón  324
Part IV: Othering Spaces, Othering Bodies
14. The Erotic Zone: Sexual Transgression on the U.S.-Mexican Border / Ramón Gutiérrez  345
15. Medicalizing the Mexican: Immigration, Race, and Disability in the Early-Twentieth-Century United States / Natalia Molina  355
16. “Looking Like a Lesbian”: The Organization of Sexual Monitoring at the United States–Mexican Border / Eithne Luibhéid  372
17.  Migrant Melancholia: Emergent Discourses of Mexican Migrant Traffic in Transnational Space / Alicia Schmidt Camacho  402
Part V: Border Crossings
18. “Awakening to a Nightmare”: Abjectivity and Illegality in the Lives of Undocumented 1.5-Generation Latino Immigrants to the United States  / Roberto G. Gonzales and Leo R. Chavez  431
19. Regions of Refuge in the United States: Issues, Problems, and Concerns for the Future of Mexican-Origin Populations in the United States / Carlos G. Vélez-Ibáñez  467
20. The Battle for the Border: Notes on Autonomous Migration, Transnational Communities, and the State / Néstor Rodríguez  500
21. Yo Era Indígena: Race, Modernity and the Transformational Politics of Transnational Labor / Mireya Loza  518
Part VI: New Border Imaginaries
22. Tijuana: Hybridity and Beyond:  A Conversation with Néstor García Canclini / Fiamma Montezemolo  563
23. The Art of Witness / Rosa-Linda Fregoso  585
24. Amnesty or Abolotion? Felons, Illegals, and the Case for a New Abolition Movement / Kelly Lytle Hernández  608
25. How to Tame a Wild Tongue / Gloria Anzaldúa  628
26. “Wavering on the Horizon of Social Being”: The Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo and the Legacy of Its Radical Character in Ámerico Paredes’s George Washington Gómez / María Josefina Saldaña-Portillo  639
Contributors  671
Credits  673
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“International borders are abjection machines capable of dazzling violence. They elude easy understanding, their fungibility signals each state’s intrinsic dependence upon them. They require, therefore, a multipronged analysis which The Border Reader provides by bringing together foundational essays tackling the border as both a material force and an imaginary site. This kaleidoscopic approach reveals the density of the border and its lingering wake.”
“The Border Reader is an outstanding collection of essays on the political complexities, identities and cultures, and futures of the US-Mexico border region. The editors have brilliantly organized the volume into key themes including borders and the politics of empire building, identity formation, gender relations, migrant crossings, and border imaginaries. With its emphasis on the work of Latinx scholars, The Border Reader is an important intervention in current debates about security, migration, and the future of borders.”

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