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Up Against the Wall : Re-Imagining the U. S. -Mexico Border.

Casey, Edward S.

Up Against the Wall : Re-Imagining the U. S. -Mexico Border. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (313 pages) - Louann Atkins Temple Women and Culture Series . - Louann Atkins Temple Women and Culture Series .

Intro -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part 1. Re-viewing La Frontera: Borders versus Boundaries -- 1. La Frontera as Border and Boundary -- 2. Ambos Nogales: A Tale of Two Cities -- 3. Tijuana: The Wall and the Estuary -- 4. Wall and River in the Lower Rio Grande Valley -- Part 2. Looking Both Ways at the Border -- Prelude to Part 2. Friendship Park: First Encounter -- 5. The Creation of an Internal Colony: Santa Barbara, a City Divided against Itself -- 6. Juan Crow: The American Ethnoracial Caste System and the Criminalization of Mexican Migrants -- 7. The Souls of Anglos -- 8. Border-Wall Art as Limit Acts -- 9. Creating Communities of Hospitality: Growing Connective Tissue between Immigrants and Citizens -- Epilogue. From Standing in the Shadows of Walls to Imagining Them Otherwise -- Notes -- Color Section -- Bibliography -- Index.

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Mexicans-United States.
Mexican Americans.
Mexican-American Border Region-Environmental conditions.
Mexican-American Border Region-Social conditions.
United States-Social conditions-21st century.


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