Cisneros, Josue David. <br/><br/>
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 .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/> 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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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780817387235 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Citizenship--Social aspects--United States.<br/>Mexican Americans--Civil rights--History.<br/>Mexican Americans--Ethnic identity.<br/>Mexican-American Border Region--Emigration and immigration.<br/>Mexican-American Border Region--Ethnic relations--History.<br/>Mexican Americans--Civil rights--History.<br/>Citizenship--Social aspects--United States.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>E184  / .B673 2014