Border visions : Mexican cultures of the Southwest United States / Carlos G. Vélez-Ibáñez.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vélez-Ibañez, Carlos G., 1936-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mexican Americans--Southwest, New.

Mexican Americans.

Emigration and immigration.

Ethnicity.

Social conditions.

Mexican-American Border Region.

Mexican Americans--Southwest, New--Social conditions.

Mexican Americans--Southwest, New--Ethnic identity.

Mexico--Emigration and immigration.

Mexico.

Southwest, New--Emigration and immigration.

Southwest, New.

New Southwest.

Physical Description:

xii, 360 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Tucson : University of Arizona Press, [1996]

Contents:

The continuing process : an ethnobiography. Without borders, the original vision

The American entrada : barrioization and the development of Mexican commodity identity

Political process, cultural invention, and social frailty : road to discovery. The politics of survival and revival : the struggle for existence and cultural dignity, 1848

1994

Living in confianza and patriarchy : the cultural systems of U.S. Mexican households

The distribution of sadness : poverty, crime, drugs, illness, and war

So farewell hope and with hope farewell fear, coming full circle in words and pictures : finding a place and space. The search for meaning and space through literature. Making pictures : U.S. Mexican place and space in mural art

Conclusions : unmasking borders of mind and method.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [323]-341) and index.

ISBN:

0816514224

OCLC:

34623342