The Border Crossed Us Rhetorics of Borders, Citizenship, and Latina/o Identity.
Cisneros, Josue David.
The Border Crossed Us Rhetorics of Borders, Citizenship, and Latina/o Identity. - Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, (c)2014. - 1 online resource (248 pages). - Albma Rhetoric Cult & Soc Crit .
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.
9780817387235
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.
Electronic Books.
E184 / .B673 2014
The Border Crossed Us Rhetorics of Borders, Citizenship, and Latina/o Identity. - Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, (c)2014. - 1 online resource (248 pages). - Albma Rhetoric Cult & Soc Crit .
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.
9780817387235
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.
Electronic Books.
E184 / .B673 2014