Up against the wall : re-imagining the U.S.-Mexico border /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Casey, Edward S., 1939- author.
Edition:	First edition.
Imprint:	Austin, TX : University of Texas Press, 2014. ©20
Description:	1 online resource (xiv, 288 pages) : illustrations
Language:	English
Series:	Louann Atkins temple women & culture series ; Book thirty-five Louann Atkins Temple women & culture series ; bk. 35.
Subject:	Mexicans -- United States. Mexican Americans. Ecology. Mexican Americans. Mexicans. Social conditions. Mexican-American Border Region -- Environmental conditions. Mexican-American Border Region -- Social conditions. United States -- Social conditions -- 21st century. North America -- Mexican-American Border Region. United States. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12645230

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Other authors / contributors:	Watkins, Mary M., author.
ISBN:	9780292768314 0292768311 0292758413 9780292758414 029275938X 9780292759381
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record.
Summary:	"As increasing global economic disparities, violence, and climate change provoke a rising tide of forced migration, many countries and local communities are responding by building walls--literal and metaphorical--between citizens and newcomers. Up Against the Wall: Re-imagining the U.S.-Mexico Border examines the temptation to construct such walls through a penetrating analysis of the U.S. wall at the U.S.-Mexico border, as well as investigating the walling out of Mexicans in local communities. Calling into question the building of a wall against a friendly neighboring nation, Up Against the Wall offers an analysis of the differences between borders and boundaries. This analysis opens the way to envisioning alternatives to the stark and policed divisions that are imposed by walls of all kinds. Tracing the consequences of imperialism and colonization as citizens grapple with new migrant neighbors, the book paints compelling examples from key locales affected by the wall--Nogales, Arizona vs. Nogales, Sonora; Tijuana/San Diego; and the lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas. An extended case study of Santa Barbara describes the creation of an internal colony in the aftermath of the U.S. conquest of Mexican land, a history that is relevant to many U.S. cities and towns. Ranging from human rights issues in the wake of massive global migration to the role of national restorative shame in the United States for the treatment of Mexicans since 1848, the authors delve into the broad repercussions of the unjust and often tragic consequences of excluding others through walled structures along with the withholding of citizenship and full societal inclusion. Through the lens of a detailed examination of forced migration from Mexico to the United States, this transdisciplinary text, drawing on philosophy, psychology, and political theory, opens up multiple insights into how nations and communities can coexist with more justice and more compassion"--publisher.
Other form:	Print version: Casey, Edward S., 1939- Up against the wall. First edition 0292758413
Govt.docs classification:	Z UA380.8 C268up

Table of Contents:

List of illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Re-viewing la frontera : borders versus boundaries
La frontera as border and boundary
Ambos Nogales : a tale of two cities
Tijuana : the wall and the estuary
Wall and river in the Lower Rio Grande Valley
Postlude 1. Walled up and walled out
Looking both ways at the border
Prelude to Part 2. Friendship Park : first encounter
The creation of an internal colony : Santa Barbara, a city divided against itself
Juan Crow: the American ethnoracial caste system and the criminalization of Mexican migrants
The souls of anglos
Border-wall art as limit acts
Creating communities of hospitality : growing connective tissue between immigrants and citizens
Postlude 2. Gaining access to the heart of our home
Epilogue: From standing in the shadows of walls to imagining them otherwise
Notes
Bibliography
Index.

Up against the wall : re-imagining the U.S.-Mexico border /

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