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Author Vila, Pablo, 1952-

Title Crossing borders, reinforcing borders : social categories, metaphors, and narrative identities on the U.S.-Mexico frontier / Pablo Vila.

Imprint Austin : University of Texas Press, 2000.

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Location Call No. Status
 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  306.0972 V695C    Check Shelf
Edition 1st ed.
Description xii, 290 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Series Inter-America series
Inter-America series.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-275) and index.
Contents Introduction -- The Mexican side : discourses of region -- The Mexican side : discourses of nation -- The emplotment of the Mexican on the U.S. side of the border -- Mexican immigrants and the "all poverty is Mexican" narrative plot -- Operation Blockade, or When private narratives went public -- Dialogical social science and the possibility of narrating better stories -- Appendix: Categories, interpellations, metaphors, and narratives : a brief theoretical discussion.
Summary Publisher Fact Sheet This book discusses the complexities of social identity construction on the U.S.-Mexico border region, from both U.S. & Mexican points of view.
Subject Ciudad Juárez (Mexico) -- Social conditions.
El Paso (Tex.) -- Social conditions.
Mexican-American Border Region -- Social conditions.
Group identity -- Mexico -- Ciudad Juárez.
Group identity -- Texas -- El Paso.
Group identity -- Mexican-American Border Region.
Group identity. (OCoLC)fst00948442
Social conditions (OCoLC)fst01919811
Mexico -- Ciudad Juárez. (OCoLC)fst01217321
North America -- Mexican-American Border Region. (OCoLC)fst01239966
Texas -- El Paso. (OCoLC)fst01206678
Grensgebieden.
Groepsvorming.
Immigranten.
Added Title Reinforcing borders
ISBN 0292787391 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
9780292787391 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
0292787405 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780292787407 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
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