The Border Crossed Us Rhetorics of Borders, Citizenship, and Latina/o Identity.
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TextSeries: Publication details: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, (c)2014.Description: 1 online resource (248 pages)Content type: - text
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- Citizenship -- Social aspects -- United States
- Mexican Americans -- Civil rights -- History
- Mexican Americans -- Ethnic identity
- Mexican-American Border Region -- Emigration and immigration
- Mexican-American Border Region -- Ethnic relations -- History
- Mexican Americans -- Civil rights -- History
- Citizenship -- Social aspects -- United States
- E184 .B673 2014
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Includes bibliographies and index.
Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction: On Border Crossing and the Crossing Border; Negotiating the Border: Race, Coloniality, and Citizenship in Nineteenth-Century California; Inhabiting the Border: Radical Rhetoric and Social Movement in 1960s New Mexico; Rebordering the Nation: Hybrid Rhetoric in the Immigrant Marches of 2006; Beyond Borders? : Citizenship and Contemporary Latina/o and Immigrant Social Movements; Conclusion: Denaturalizing Borders and Citizenship; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
The Border Crossed Us explores efforts to restrict and expand notions of US citizenship as they relate specifically to the US-Mexico border and Latina/o identity. Borders and citizenship go hand in hand. Borders define a nation as a territorial entity and create the parameters for national belonging. But the relationship between borders and citizenship breeds perpetual anxiety over the purported sanctity of the border, the security of a nation, and the integrity of civic identity. In The Border Crossed Us, Josue David Cisneros addresses these themes as they r.
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