The Border Crossed Us
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The Border Crossed Us
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Author : Josue David Cisneros
language : en
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Release Date : 2014-02-28
The Border Crossed Us written by Josue David Cisneros and has been published by University of Alabama Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-02-28 with History categories.
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 belonging. But the relationship between borders and citizenship breeds perpetual anxiety over the purported sanctity of the border, the security of a nation, and the integrity of civic identity. In The Border Crossed Us, Josue David Cisneros addresses these themes as they relate to the US-Mexico border, arguing that issues ranging from the Mexican-American War of 1846–1848 to contemporary debates about Latina/o immigration and border security are negotiated rhetorically through public discourse. He explores these rhetorical battles through case studies of specific Latina/o struggles for civil rights and citizenship, including debates about Mexican American citizenship in the 1849 California Constitutional Convention, 1960s Chicana/o civil rights movements, and modern-day immigrant activism. Cisneros posits that borders—both geographic and civic—have crossed and recrossed Latina/o communities throughout history (the book’s title derives from the popular activist chant, “We didn’t cross the border; the border crossed us!”) and that Latina/os in the United States have long contributed to, struggled with, and sought to cross or challenge the borders of belonging, including race, culture, language, and gender. The Border Crossed Us illuminates the enduring significance and evolution of US borders and citizenship, and provides programmatic and theoretical suggestions for the continued study of these critical issues.
The Border Crossed Us
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Author : Justin Akers Chacón
language : en
Publisher: Haymarket Books
Release Date : 2021-07-13
The Border Crossed Us written by Justin Akers Chacón and has been published by Haymarket Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-07-13 with Social Science categories.
The aggressive exploitation of labor on both sides of the US-Mexico border has become a prominent feature of capitalism in North America. Kids in cages, violent ICE raids, and anti-immigrant racist rhetoric characterize our political reality and are everyday shaping how people intersect at the US-Mexico border. As activist-scholar Justin Akers Chacón carefully demonstrates, however, this vicious model of capitalist transnationalization has also created its own grave-diggers. Contemporary North American capitalism relies heavily on an inter-connected working class which extends across the border. Cross-border production and supply chains, logistics networks, and retail and service firms have aligned and fused a growing number of workers into one common class, whether they live in the US or Mexico. While money moves without restriction, the movement of displaced migrant workers across borders is restricted and punished. Transborder people face walls, armed agents, detention camps, and a growing regime of repressive laws that criminalize them. Despite the growth and violence of the police state dedicated to the repression of transborder populations—the migra-state—migrant workers have been at the forefront of class struggle in the United States. This timely book persuasively argues that labor and migrant solidarity movements are already showing how and why, in order to fight for justice and re-build the international union movement, we must open the border.
Mexifornia
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Author : Victor Davis Hanson
language : en
Publisher: Encounter Books
Release Date : 2007
Mexifornia written by Victor Davis Hanson and has been published by Encounter Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with History categories.
In this revised and updated edition, Mexifornia examines the predicament of those vigorous, ambitious Mexicans that make California strong but who are hurt by inadequate policies that damage them and this country. Ultimately, Hanson hopes that our traditions of assimilation, integration and intermarriage can yet remedy the immigration crisis that continues to grow and shape America's future.
The Border Within
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Author : Tara Watson
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2022-01-17
The Border Within written by Tara Watson and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-01-17 with History categories.
"An analysis of the costs and effects of immigration and immigration policy, both on American life and on new Americans. This book examines the costs and ends of America's interior enforcement: the policies and agencies, including ICE, aimed at removing immigrants already living in the country. Economist Tara Watson and journalist Kalee Thompson pair analysis with personal stories from immigrants and their families to assess immigration's effects on every aspect of American life, from the labor force to social welfare programs to tax revenue. What emerges is a critical examination of what non-native Americans bring to the country, including immigration's tendency to elevate the wages and skills of those who are native-born. The authors dissect the shock-and-awe policies that make up a broken, often cruel system, while illuminating the lives caught in the chaos"--Publisher's description.
Corridos In Migrant Memory
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Author : Martha I. Chew Sánchez
language : en
Publisher: UNM Press
Release Date : 2006-05-16
Corridos In Migrant Memory written by Martha I. Chew Sánchez and has been published by UNM Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-05-16 with Business & Economics categories.
Corridos in Migrant Memory examines the role of ballads in shaping the cultural memories and identities of transnational Mexican groups.
Border Spaces
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Author : Katherine G. Morrissey
language : en
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Release Date : 2018-03-13
Border Spaces written by Katherine G. Morrissey and has been published by University of Arizona Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-03-13 with History categories.
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 symbolic importance and visual impact of border spaces resonate deeply. In Border Spaces, Katherine G. Morrissey, John-Michael H. Warner, and other essayists build on the insights of border dwellers, or fronterizos, and draw on two interrelated fields—border art history and border studies. The editors engage in a conversation on the physical landscape of the border and its representations through time, art, and architecture. The volume is divided into two linked sections—one on border histories of built environments and the second on border art histories. Each section begins with a “conversation” essay—co-authored by two leading interdisciplinary scholars in the relevant fields—that weaves together the book’s thematic questions with the ideas and essays to follow. Border Spaces is prompted by art and grounded in an academy ready to consider the connections between art, land, and people in a binational region. Contributors Maribel Alvarez Geraldo Luján Cadava Amelia Malagamba-Ansótegui Mary E. Mendoza Sarah J. Moore Katherine G. Morrissey Margaret Regan Rebecca M. Schreiber Ila N. Sheren Samuel Truett John-Michael H. Warner
Deported To Death
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Author : Jeremy Slack
language : en
Publisher: University of California Press
Release Date : 2019-07-30
Deported To Death written by Jeremy Slack and has been published by University of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-07-30 with Social Science categories.
What happens to migrants after they are deported from the United States and dropped off at the Mexican border, often hundreds if not thousands of miles from their hometowns? In this eye-opening work, Jeremy Slack foregrounds the voices and experiences of Mexican deportees, who frequently become targets of extreme forms of violence, including migrant massacres, upon their return to Mexico. Navigating the complex world of the border, Slack investigates how the high-profile drug war has led to more than two hundred thousand deaths in Mexico, and how many deportees, stranded and vulnerable in unfamiliar cities, have become fodder for drug cartel struggles. Like no other book before it, Deported to Death reshapes debates on the long-term impact of border enforcement and illustrates the complex decisions migrants must make about whether to attempt the return to an often dangerous life in Mexico or face increasingly harsh punishment in the United States.
Anything But Mexican
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Author : Rodolfo Acuña
language : en
Publisher: Verso
Release Date : 1996-04-17
Anything But Mexican written by Rodolfo Acuña and has been published by Verso this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-04-17 with Social Science categories.
Anything But Mexican challenges neo-liberal interpretations of the history of Los Angeles which blame Mexicans and other immigrants of color for the decline of the city. Acuna's provocative work confronts these historical myths, signaling that Latinos will not be dismissed.
Border Crossing
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Author : Pat Barker
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2002-04-04
Border Crossing written by Pat Barker and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-04-04 with Fiction categories.
An unflinching novel on the nature of evil from the Booker Prize-winning and Women's Prize-shortlisted author of The Silence of the Girls 'Rich, surprising, breathtaking' The Times 'A tremendous piece of writing, sad and terrifying. It keeps you reading, exhausted and blurry-eyed, until 2am' Independent on Sunday 'Barker probes not only the mysteries of 'evil' but society's horrified and incoherent response to it' Guardian 'Brilliantly crafted. Unflinching yet sensitive, this is a dark story expertly told' Daily Mail When Tom Seymour, a child psychologist, plunges into a river to save a young man from drowning, he unwittingly reopens a chapter from his past he'd hoped to forget. For Tom already knows Danny Miller. When Danny was ten Tom helped imprison him for the killing of an old woman. Now out of prison with a new identity, Danny has some questions - questions he thinks only Tom can answer. Reluctantly, Tom is drawn back into Danny's world - a place where the border between good and evil, innocence and guilt is blurred and confused. But when Danny's demands on Tom become extreme, Tom wonders whether he has crossed a line of his own - and in crossing it, can he ever go back?
Performing The Us Latina And Latino Borderlands
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Author : Arturo J. Aldama
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 2012-10-09
Performing The Us Latina And Latino Borderlands written by Arturo J. Aldama and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-10-09 with Art categories.
In this interdisciplinary volume, contributors analyze the expression of Latina/o cultural identity through performance. With music, theater, dance, visual arts, body art, spoken word, performance activism, fashion, and street theater as points of entry, contributors discuss cultural practices and the fashoning of identity in Latino/a communities throughout the US. Examining the areas of crossover between Latin and American cultures gives new meaning to the notion of "borderlands." This volume features senior scholars and up-and-coming academics from cultural, visual, and performance studies, folklore, and ethnomusicology.