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Up against the wall : re-imagining the U.S.-Mexico border / Edward S. Casey and Mary Watkins.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Casey, Edward S., 1939- (Author), Watkins, Mary M. (Author)
Format: Government Document Book
Language:English
Published: Austin, TX : University of Texas Press, 2014.
Edition:First edition.
Series:Louann Atkins Temple women & culture series ; bk. 35.
Subjects:
Mexican-American Border Region > Environmental conditions.
Mexican-American Border Region > Social conditions.
Mexicans > United States.
Mexican Americans.
United States > Social conditions > 21st century.
Ecology.
Mexicans.
Social history.
North America > Mexican-American Border Region.
United States.
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.

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