| Description |
248 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction : Border studies, diaspora, and theories of globalization / Claudia Sadowski-Smith -- Border shopping : American studies and the anti-nation / Bryce Traister -- Telling the difference between the border and the borderlands : materiality and theoretical practice / Manuel Luis Martinez -- Reading across diaspora : Chinese and Mexican undocumented immigration across U.S. land borders / Claudia Sadowski-Smith -- Performing the border : on gender, transnational bodies, and technology / Ursula Biemann -- Fan letters to the cultural industries : border literature about mass media / Claire F. Fox -- Mapping Latinidad : language and culture in the Spanish TV battlefront / Arlene Dávila -- Iroquois border crossings : place, politics, and the Jay treaty / Donald A. Grinde, Jr. (Yamasee) -- Las voces de esperanza/voices of hope : la mujer obrera, transnationalism, and NAFTA-displaced women workers in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands / Sharon A. Navarro -- Transborder collaboration : the dynamics of grassroots globalization / Manuel Rafael Mancillas -- Encounter with a Mexican jaguar : nature, NAFTA, militarization, and ranching in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands / Joni Adamson |
| Summary |
This interdisciplinary collection brings together essays on the cultural effects of globalization at the U.S.-Mexico and U.S.-Canada borders. Artists, activists, and scholars from American Studies, anthropology, Chicano studies, English, folklore, history, and political science examine a wide range of cultural practices in border areas, including cross-border shopping, migration, and transnational media spectatorship. Contributors focus on a variety of border crossers and residents, such as Mexican migrants in the American Southwest, indigenous peoples in the Lake Ontario region, undocumented Chinese immigrants at the U.S.-Canada border, environmental groups in Arizona, NAFTA-displaced women laborers in Texas, squatter communities in Baja California, and maquiladora workers in Chihuahua.[publisher] |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Globalization.
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International economic relations.
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| SUBJECT |
Mexican-American Border Region. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85084485
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United States -- Cultural policy.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100001
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United States -- Foreign relations -- 1989-
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh93001742
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| Author |
Sadowski-Smith, Claudia, 1968-
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| LC no. |
2001056139 |
| ISBN |
0312294832 : |
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0312294824 hardback |
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