Fragmented lives, assembled parts : culture, capitalism, and conquest at the U.S.-Mexico border /
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| Author / Creator: | Lugo, Alejandro, 1962- |
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Imprint: | Austin : University of Texas Press, 2008. |
| Description: | xiii, 323 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7297151 |
Table of Contents:
- Sixteenth-century conquests (1521-1598) and their postcolonial border legacies
- The invention of borderlands geography : what do Aztlán and Tenochtitlán have to do with Ciudad Juárez/Paso del Norte?
- The problem of color in Mexico and on the U.S.-Mexico border : precolonial, colonial, and postcolonial subjectivities
- Culture, class, and gender in late twentieth-century Ciudad Juárez
- Maquiladoras, gender, and culture change
- The political economy of tropes, culture, and masculinity inside an electronics factory
- Border inspections : inspecting the working-class life of maquiladora workers on the U.S-Mexico border
- Culture, class, and union politics : the daily struggle for chairs inside a sewing factory in the larger context of the working day
- Women, men, and "gender" in feminist anthropology : lessons from northern Mexico's maquiladoras
- Alternating imaginings
- Reimagining culture and power against late industrial capitalism and other forms of conquest through border theory and analysis.
