Title Coloniality of the US/Mexico border : power, violence, and the decolonial imperative / Roberto D. Hernández

Published Tucson : The University of Arizona Press, 2018 ©2018

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Description 1 online resource Contents List of illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- 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 -- Notes -- Discography and filmography -- Bibliography -- Index Summary 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 violence. In Coloniality of the U-S///Mexico Border, Hernández offers an exemplary case and lens for understanding what he terms the "epistemic and cartographic prison of modernity/coloniality." He adopts "coloniality of power" as a central analytical category and framework to consider multiple forms of real and symbolic violence (territorial, corporeal, cultural, and epistemic) and analyzes the varied responses by diverse actors, including local residents, government officials, and cultural producers. Based on more than twenty years of border activism in San Diego-Tijuana and El Paso-Ciudad Juárez, this book is an interdisciplinary examination that considers the 1984 McDonald's massacre, Minutemen vigilantism, border urbanism, the ongoing murder of women in Ciudad Juárez, and anti-border music. Hernández's approach is at once historical, ethnographic, and theoretically driven, yet it is grounded in analyses and debates that cut across political theory, border studies, and cultural studies. The volume concludes with a theoretical discussion of the future of violence at--and because of--national territorial borders, offering a call for epistemic and cartographic disobedience Bibliography Includes discography and filmography (pages 215-216), bibliographical references (pages 217-236) and index Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 17, 2018) Subject Violence -- Mexican-American Border Region Violence -- Mexican-American Border Region -- Sociological aspects SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General. Social conditions Violence Violence -- Sociological aspects SUBJECT San Ysidro (San Diego, Calif.) -- Social conditions Tijuana (Baja California, Mexico) -- Social conditions El Paso (Tex.) -- Social conditions Ciudad Juárez (Mexico) -- Social conditions Subject California -- San Diego -- San Ysidro Mexico -- Ciudad Juárez Mexico -- Tijuana (Baja California) North America -- Mexican-American Border Region Texas -- El Paso Form Electronic book ISBN 9780816538843 0816538840

Other Titles Coloniality of the United States Mexico border Power, violence, and the decolonial imperative

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