Coloniality of the US/Mexico border : power, violence, and the decolonial imperative /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Hernández, Roberto, 1979- author.
Imprint:	Tucson : The University of Arizona Press, [2018]
Description:	xiv, 245 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Violence -- Mexican-American Border Region. Violence -- Mexican-American Border Region -- Sociological aspects. Social conditions. Violence. Violence -- Sociological aspects. San Ysidro (San Diego, Calif.) -- Social conditions. Tijuana (Baja California, Mexico) -- Social conditions. El Paso (Tex.) -- Social conditions. Ciudad Juárez (Mexico) -- Social conditions. California -- San Diego -- San Ysidro. Mexico -- Ciudad Juárez. Mexico -- Tijuana (Baja California) North America -- Mexican-American Border Region. Texas -- El Paso.
Format:	E-Resource Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11716620

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ISBN:	9780816537198 0816537194
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"This book argues that perceptions of border violence attributed to the drug trade ignore more important dynamics tied to power, place, and history"--Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents:

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Coloniality of Power, Violence, and the U-S///Mexico Border
1. At Horne in the Nation: On the Structural Embeddedness of Vigilantism and Colonial Racism
2. Territorial Violence and the Structural Location of Border(ed) Communities
3. The 1984 McDonald's Massacre and the Politics of Monuments, Memory, and Militarization
4. Las Mujeres Asesinadas de Ciudad Juárez and the Double Bind of Their Representation/ability
5. "The Borders Crossed Us": Anti-Mexican Racism as Anti-Indianism
Conclusion: Coloniality and the Decolonial Imperative
Notes
Discography and Filmography
Bibliography
Index

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