Brings together canonical and cutting-edge humanities and social science scholarship on the US-Mexico border region. Spotlighting the vibrancy of border studies from the fieldâ s emergence to its enduring significance, the essays mobilize feminist, queer, and critical ethnic studies perspectives to theorize the border as a site of epistemic rupture and knowledge production.
Brings together canonical and cutting-edge humanities and social science scholarship on the US-Mexico border region. Spotlighting the vibrancy of border studies from the fieldâ s emergence to its enduring significance, the essays mobilize feminist, queer, and critical ethnic studies perspectives to theorize the border as a site of epistemic rupture and knowledge production.
Introduction: On Theories from the Ends / Gilberto Rosas and Mireya Loza 3 Part I: Locating the Border 1. Empire and the Origins of Twentieth-Century Migration from Mexico to the United States / Gilbert G. González and Raúl Fernández 13 2. Legal Violence: Immigration Law and the Lives of Central American Immigrants / Cecilia Menjívar and Leisy J. Abrego 45 3. Necro-Subjection: On Borders, Asylum, and Making Dead to Let Live / Gilberto Rosas 87 4. Reimagining Culture and Power against Late Industrial Capitalism and Other Forms of Conquest through Border Theory and Analysis / Alejandro Lugo 108 5. Tijuana Cuir / Sayak Valencia Triana 136 Part II: Documenting Identities 6. The United States, Mexico and Machismo / Américo Paredes 149 7. The Spanish Settlement of Texas and Arizona / Martha Menchaca 168 8. A Place Called Home: A Queer Political Economy of Mexican Immigrant Men’s Family Experiences / Lionel Cantú 199 9. Migrations / Patricia Zavella 222 Part III: En/Gendering Borders 10. Changing Chicano Narratives / Renato Rosaldo 265 11. Feminism on the Border: From Gender Politics to Geopolitics / Sonia Saldívar-Hull 282 12. Trans-migrations: Agency and Confinement at the Limits of Sovereignty / Martha Balaguera 301 13. Carne, Carnales, and the Carnivalesque / José E. Limón 324 Part IV: Othering Spaces, Othering Bodies 14. The Erotic Zone: Sexual Transgression on the U.S.-Mexican Border / Ramón Gutiérrez 345 15. Medicalizing the Mexican: Immigration, Race, and Disability in the Early-Twentieth-Century United States / Natalia Molina 355 16. “Looking Like a Lesbian”: The Organization of Sexual Monitoring at the U.S.–Mexican Border / Eithne Luibhéid 372 17. Migrant Melancholia: Emergent Discourses of Mexican Migrant Traffic in Transnational Space / Alicia Schmidt Camacho 402 Part V: Border Crossings 18. “Awakening to a Nightmare”: Abjectivity and Illegality in the Lives of Undocumented 1.5-Generation Latino Immigrants to the United States / Roberto G. Gonzales and Leo R. Chavez 431 19. Regions of Refuge in the United States: Issues, Problems, and Concerns for the Future of Mexican-Origin Populations in the United States / Carlos G. Vélez-Ibáñez 466 20. The Battle for the Border: Notes on Autonomous Migration, Transnational Communities, and the State / Néstor Rodríguez 500 21. Yo Era Indígena: Race, Modernity and the Transformational Politics of Transnational Labor / Mireya Loza 518 Part VI: New Border Imaginaries 22. Tijuana: Hybridity and Beyond: A Conversation with Néstor García Canclini / Fiamma Montezemolo 563 23. The Art of Witness / Rosa-Linda Fregoso 585 24. Amnesty or Abolition? Felons, Illegals, and the Case for a New Abolition Movement / Kelly Lytle Hernández 608 25. How to Tame a Wild Tongue / Gloria Anzaldúa 628 26. “Wavering on the Horizon of Social Being”: The Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo and the Legacy of Its Radical Character in Ámerico Paredes’s George Washington Gómez / María Josefina Saldaña-Portillo 639 Contributors 671 Credits 673 Index 677
Introduction: On Theories from the Ends / Gilberto Rosas and Mireya Loza 3 Part I: Locating the Border 1. Empire and the Origins of Twentieth-Century Migration from Mexico to the United States / Gilbert G. González and Raúl Fernández 13 2. Legal Violence: Immigration Law and the Lives of Central American Immigrants / Cecilia Menjívar and Leisy J. Abrego 45 3. Necro-Subjection: On Borders, Asylum, and Making Dead to Let Live / Gilberto Rosas 87 4. Reimagining Culture and Power against Late Industrial Capitalism and Other Forms of Conquest through Border Theory and Analysis / Alejandro Lugo 108 5. Tijuana Cuir / Sayak Valencia Triana 136 Part II: Documenting Identities 6. The United States, Mexico and Machismo / Américo Paredes 149 7. The Spanish Settlement of Texas and Arizona / Martha Menchaca 168 8. A Place Called Home: A Queer Political Economy of Mexican Immigrant Men’s Family Experiences / Lionel Cantú 199 9. Migrations / Patricia Zavella 222 Part III: En/Gendering Borders 10. Changing Chicano Narratives / Renato Rosaldo 265 11. Feminism on the Border: From Gender Politics to Geopolitics / Sonia Saldívar-Hull 282 12. Trans-migrations: Agency and Confinement at the Limits of Sovereignty / Martha Balaguera 301 13. Carne, Carnales, and the Carnivalesque / José E. Limón 324 Part IV: Othering Spaces, Othering Bodies 14. The Erotic Zone: Sexual Transgression on the U.S.-Mexican Border / Ramón Gutiérrez 345 15. Medicalizing the Mexican: Immigration, Race, and Disability in the Early-Twentieth-Century United States / Natalia Molina 355 16. “Looking Like a Lesbian”: The Organization of Sexual Monitoring at the U.S.–Mexican Border / Eithne Luibhéid 372 17. Migrant Melancholia: Emergent Discourses of Mexican Migrant Traffic in Transnational Space / Alicia Schmidt Camacho 402 Part V: Border Crossings 18. “Awakening to a Nightmare”: Abjectivity and Illegality in the Lives of Undocumented 1.5-Generation Latino Immigrants to the United States / Roberto G. Gonzales and Leo R. Chavez 431 19. Regions of Refuge in the United States: Issues, Problems, and Concerns for the Future of Mexican-Origin Populations in the United States / Carlos G. Vélez-Ibáñez 466 20. The Battle for the Border: Notes on Autonomous Migration, Transnational Communities, and the State / Néstor Rodríguez 500 21. Yo Era Indígena: Race, Modernity and the Transformational Politics of Transnational Labor / Mireya Loza 518 Part VI: New Border Imaginaries 22. Tijuana: Hybridity and Beyond: A Conversation with Néstor García Canclini / Fiamma Montezemolo 563 23. The Art of Witness / Rosa-Linda Fregoso 585 24. Amnesty or Abolition? Felons, Illegals, and the Case for a New Abolition Movement / Kelly Lytle Hernández 608 25. How to Tame a Wild Tongue / Gloria Anzaldúa 628 26. “Wavering on the Horizon of Social Being”: The Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo and the Legacy of Its Radical Character in Ámerico Paredes’s George Washington Gómez / María Josefina Saldaña-Portillo 639 Contributors 671 Credits 673 Index 677
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