The Border Reader brings together canonical and cutting-edge humanities and social science scholarship on the US-Mexico border region. Spotlighting the vibrancy of border studies from the field’s emergence to its enduring significance, the essays mobilize feminist, queer, and critical ethnic studies perspectives to theorize the border as a site of epistemic rupture and knowledge production. The chapters speak to how borders exist as regions where people and nation-states negotiate power, citizenship, and questions of empire. Among other topics, these essays examine the lived experiences of the diverse undocumented people who move through and live in the border region; trace the gendered and sexualized experiences of the border; show how the US-Mexico border has become a site of illegality where immigrant bodies become racialized and excluded; and imagine anti- and post-border futures. Foregrounding the interplay of scholarly inquiry and political urgency stemming from the borderlands, The Border Reader presents a unique cross section of critical interventions on the region.
Contributors. Leisy J. Abrego, Gloria E. Anzaldúa, Martha Balaguera, Lionel Cantú, Leo R. Chavez, Raúl Fernández, Rosa-Linda Fregoso, Roberto G. Gonzales, Gilbert G. González, Ramón Gutiérrez, Kelly Lytle Hernández, José E. Limón, Mireya Loza, Alejandro Lugo, Eithne Luibhéid, Martha Menchaca, Cecilia Menjívar, Natalia Molina, Fiamma Montezemolo, Américo Paredes, Néstor Rodríguez, Renato Rosaldo, Gilberto Rosas, María Josefina Saldaña-Portillo, Sonia Saldívar-Hull, Alicia Schmidt Camacho, Sayak Valencia Triana, Carlos G. Vélez-Ibáñez, Patricia Zavella
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- Contents
- Introduction: On Theories from the Ends / Gilberto Rosas and Mireya Loza
- 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
- 2. Legal Violence: Immigration Law and the Lives of Central American Immigrants / Cecilia Menjívar and Leisy J. Abrego
- 3. Necro-Subjection: On Borders, Asylum, and Making Dead to Let Live / Gilberto Rosas
- 4. Reimagining Culture and Power against Late Industrial Capitalism and Other Forms of Conquest through Border Theory and Analysis / Alejandro Lugo
- 5. Tijuana Cuir / Sayak Valencia Triana
- Part II. Documenting Identities
- 6. The United States, Mexico, and Machismo / Américo Paredes
- 7. The Spanish Settlement of Texas and Arizona / Martha Menchaca
- 8. A Place Called Home: A Queer Political Economy of Mexican Immigrant Men’s Family Experiences / Lionel Cantú
- 9. Migrations / Patricia Zavella
- Part III: En/Gendering Borders
- 10. Changing Chicano Narratives / Renato Rosaldo
- 11. Feminism on the Border: From Gender Politics to Geopolitics / Sonia Saldívar-Hull
- 12. Trans-migrations: Agency and Confinement at the Limits of Sovereignty / Martha Balaguera
- 13. Carne, Carnales, and the Carnivalesque / José E. Limón
- Part IV. Othering Spaces, Othering Bodies
- 14. The Erotic Zone: Sexual Transgression on the U.S.-Mexican Border / Ramón Gutiérrez
- 15 Medicalizing the Mexican: Immigration, Race, and Disability in the Early Twentieth-Century United States / Natalia Molina
- 16. “Looking Like a Lesbian”: The Organization of Sexual Monitoring at the U.S.-Mexican Border / Eithne Luibhéid
- 17. Migrant Melancholia: Emergent Discourses of Mexican Migrant Traffic in Transnational Space / Alicia Schmidt Camacho
- Part V. Border Crossings
- 18. “Awakening to a Nightmare”: Abjectivity and Illegality in the Lives of Undocumented 1.5-Generation Latino Immigrants in the United States / Roberto G. Gonzales and Leo R. Chavez
- 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
- 20. The Battle for the Border: Notes on Autonomous Migration, Transnational Communities, and the State / Néstor Rodríguez
- 21. Yo Era Indígena: Race, Modernity, and the Transformational Politics of Transnational Labor / Mireya Loza
- Part VI. New Border Imaginaries
- 22. Tijuana: Hybridity and Beyond: A Conversation with Néstor García Canclini / Fiamma Montezemolo
- 23. The Art of Witness / Rosa-Linda Fregoso
- 24. Amnesty or Abolition? Felons, Illegals, and the Case for a New Abolition Movement / Kelly Lytle Hernández
- 25. How to Tame a Wild Tongue / Gloria Anzaldúa
- 26. “Wavering on the Horizon of Social Being”: The Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo and the Legacy of Its Racial Character in Américo Paredes’s George Washington Gómez / María Josefina Saldaña-Portillo
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