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Author Vila, Pablo, 1952- author

Title Crossing borders, reinforcing borders : social categories, metaphors, and narrative identities on the U.S.-Mexico frontier / Pablo Vila
Edition 1st ed
Published Austin : University of Texas Press, 2000

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 290 pages) : illustrations
Series Inter-America series
Inter-America series.
Contents PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- Chapter 1. THE MEXICAN SIDE: DISCOURSES OF REGION -- Chapter 2. THE MEXICAN SIDE: DISCOURSES OF NATION -- Chapter 3. THE EMPLOTMENT OF THE MEXICAN ON THE U.S. SIDE OF THE BORDER -- Chapter 4. MEXICAN IMMIGRANTS AND THE "ALL POVERTY IS MEXICAN" NARRATIVE PLOT -- Chapter 5. OPERATION BLOCKADE, OR WHEN PRIVATE NARRATIVES WENT PUBLIC -- Chapter 6. DIALOGICAL SOCIAL SCIENCE AND THE POSSIBILITY OF NARRATING BETTER STORIES -- Appendix. CATEGORIES, INTERPELLATIONS, METAPHORS, AND NARRATIVES: A BRIEF THEORETICAL DISCUSSION -- NOTES
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-275) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Group identity -- Mexico -- Ciudad Juárez
Group identity -- Texas -- El Paso
Group identity -- Mexican-American Border Region
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- General.
Group identity
Social conditions
Grensgebieden.
Groepsvorming.
Immigranten.
SUBJECT Ciudad Juárez (Mexico) -- Social conditions
El Paso (Tex.) -- Social conditions
Mexican-American Border Region -- Social conditions
Subject Mexico -- Ciudad Juárez
North America -- Mexican-American Border Region
Texas -- El Paso
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0292796323
9780292796324
9780292787407
0292787405
Other Titles Reinforcing borders