The U.S.-Mexico border : transcending divisions, contesting identities /

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	Boulder : Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1998.
Description:	viii, 263 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Economic history. Ethnic relations. International relations. Politics and government. Social conditions. Mexican-American Border Region. United States -- Relations -- Mexico. Mexico -- Relations -- United States. Mexican-American Border Region -- Economic conditions. Mexican-American Border Region -- Politics and government. Mexican-American Border Region -- Social conditions. Mexican-American Border Region -- Ethnic relations. Mexico. North America -- Mexican-American Border Region. United States.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/3452486

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Varying Form of Title:	United States-Mexico border
Other authors / contributors:	Spener, David, 1961- Staudt, Kathleen A.
ISBN:	1555877966 (hard cover : alk. paper)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments
1. The View from the Frontier: Theoretical Perspectives Undisciplined
2. Nations and Borders: Romantic Nationalism and the Project of Modernity
3. Re-Presenting the Public Interest on the U.S.-Mexico Border
4. Small Business, Social Capital, and Economic Integration on the Texas-Mexico Border
5. Visiting the Mother Country: Border-Crossing as a Cultural Practice
6. Mexico Reflects on the United States: Colonias, Politics, and Public Services in Fragmented Federalism
7. Globalizing Tenochtitlán? Feminist Geo-Politics: Mexico City as Borderland
8. Border Signs: Graffiti, Contested Identities, and Everyday Resistance in Los Angeles
9. The Competing Meanings of the Label """"Chicano"""" in El Paso
10. New Relationships between Territory and State: the U.S.-Mexico Border in Perspective
11. Conclusion: Rebordering
About the Contributors
Index
About the Book

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