Border Visions
Title | Border Visions PDF eBook |
Author | Carlos G. VŽlez-Iba–ez |
Publisher | University of Arizona Press |
Pages | 388 |
Release | 1996-11 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9780816516841 |
The U.S.-Mexico border region is home to anthropologist Carlos VŽlez-Ib‡–ez. Into these pages he pours nearly half a century of searching and finding answers to the Mexican experience in the southwestern United States. He describes and analyzes the process, as generation upon generation of Mexicans moved north and attempted to create an identity or sense of cultural space and place. In todayÕs border fences he also sees barriers to how Mexicans understand themselves and how they are fundamentally understood. From prehistory to the present, VŽlez-Ib‡–ez traces the intense bumping among Native Americans, Spaniards, and Mexicans, as Mesoamerican populations and ideas moved northward. He demonstrates how cultural glue is constantly replenished by strengthening family ties that reach across both sides of the border. The author describes ways in which Mexicans have resisted and accommodated the dominant culture by creating communities and by forming labor unions, voluntary associations, and cultural movements. He analyzes the distribution of sadness, or overrepresentation of Mexicans in poverty, crime, illness, and war, and shows how that sadness is balanced by creative expressions of literature and art, especially mural art, in the ongoing search for space and place. Here is a book for the nineties and beyond, a book that relates to NAFTA, to complex questions of immigration, and to the expanding population of Mexicans in the U.S.-Mexico border region and other parts of the country. An important new volume for social science, humanities, and Latin American scholars, Border Visions will also attract general readers for its robust narrative and autobiographical edge. For all readers, the book points to new ways of seeing borders, whether they are visible walls of brick and stone or less visible, infinitely more powerful barriers of the mind.
Border Visions
Title | Border Visions PDF eBook |
Author | Carlos G. VŽlez-Iba–ez |
Publisher | University of Arizona Press |
Pages | 382 |
Release | 1996-11 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0816516847 |
The U.S.-Mexico border region is home to anthropologist Carlos VŽlez-Ib‡–ez. Into these pages he pours nearly half a century of searching and finding answers to the Mexican experience in the southwestern United States. He describes and analyzes the process, as generation upon generation of Mexicans moved north and attempted to create an identity or sense of cultural space and place. In todayÕs border fences he also sees barriers to how Mexicans understand themselves and how they are fundamentally understood. From prehistory to the present, VŽlez-Ib‡–ez traces the intense bumping among Native Americans, Spaniards, and Mexicans, as Mesoamerican populations and ideas moved northward. He demonstrates how cultural glue is constantly replenished by strengthening family ties that reach across both sides of the border. The author describes ways in which Mexicans have resisted and accommodated the dominant culture by creating communities and by forming labor unions, voluntary associations, and cultural movements. He analyzes the distribution of sadness, or overrepresentation of Mexicans in poverty, crime, illness, and war, and shows how that sadness is balanced by creative expressions of literature and art, especially mural art, in the ongoing search for space and place. Here is a book for the nineties and beyond, a book that relates to NAFTA, to complex questions of immigration, and to the expanding population of Mexicans in the U.S.-Mexico border region and other parts of the country. An important new volume for social science, humanities, and Latin American scholars, Border Visions will also attract general readers for its robust narrative and autobiographical edge. For all readers, the book points to new ways of seeing borders, whether they are visible walls of brick and stone or less visible, infinitely more powerful barriers of the mind.
Smeltertown
Title | Smeltertown PDF eBook |
Author | Monica Perales |
Publisher | Univ of North Carolina Press |
Pages | 351 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0807834114 |
Traces the history of Smeltertown, Texas, a city located on the banks of the Rio Grande that was home to generations of ethnic Mexicans who worked at the American Smelting and Refining Company in El Paso, Texas, with information from newspapers, personalarchives, photographs, employee records, parish newsletters, and interviews.
Southwest Border Task Force Recommendations
Title | Southwest Border Task Force Recommendations PDF eBook |
Author | President's Homeland Security Advisory Council (U.S.). Southwest Border Task Force |
Publisher | |
Pages | 20 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Mexican-American Border Region |
ISBN |
Southwest Border: More Timely Border Patrol Access and Timing Could Improve Security Operations and Natural Resource Protection on Federal Lands
Title | Southwest Border: More Timely Border Patrol Access and Timing Could Improve Security Operations and Natural Resource Protection on Federal Lands PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | DIANE Publishing |
Pages | 68 |
Release | |
Genre | |
ISBN | 1437941613 |
INS' Southwest Border Strategy
Title | INS' Southwest Border Strategy PDF eBook |
Author | United States. General Accounting Office |
Publisher | DIANE Publishing |
Pages | 37 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Border patrols |
ISBN | 1428948171 |
Illegal immigration status of southwest border strategy implementation : report to congressional committees
Title | Illegal immigration status of southwest border strategy implementation : report to congressional committees PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | DIANE Publishing |
Pages | 40 |
Release | |
Genre | |
ISBN | 1428974261 |