Border rhetorics : citizenship and identity on the US-Mexico frontier / edited by D. Robert DeChaine.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

DeChaine, D. Robert (Daniel Robert), 1961-

Series:

Rhetoric, culture, and social critique

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rhetoric--Political aspects.

Citizenship.

Mexican-American Border Region--Emigration and immigration--Political aspects.

Mexican-American Border Region.

Mexican-American Border Region--Emigration and immigration--Social aspects.

Citizenship--Political aspects--United States.

Rhetoric--Political aspects--United States.

Rhetoric.

Noncitizens--United States.

Noncitizens.

Illegal immigration--United States.

Illegal immigration.

United States.

Border security--United States.

Border security.

Physical Description:

viii, 273 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, 2012.

Contents:

I Conceptual Orientations

1 Borders That Travel: Matters of the Figural Border / Kent A. Ono Ono, Kent A. 19

2 Bordering as Social Practice: Intersectional Identifications and Coalitional Possibilities / Julia R. Johnson Johnson, Julia R. 33

3 Border Interventions: The Need to Shift from a Rhetoric of Security to a Rhetoric of Militarization / Karma R. Chávez Chávez, Karma R. 48

II Historical Consequences

4 A Dispensational Rhetoric in "The Mexican Question in the Southwest" / Michelle A. Holling Holling, Michelle A. 65

5 Mobilizing for National Inclusion: The Discursivity of Whiteness among Texas Mexicans' Arguments for Desegregation / Lisa A. Flores Flores, Lisa A., Mary Ann Villarreal Villarreal, Mary Ann 86

III Legal Acts

6 The Attempted Legitimation of the Vigilante Civil Border Patrols, the Militarization of the Mexican-US Border, and the Law of Unintended Consequences / Marouf Hasian Jr. Hasian, Marouf, Jr., George F. McHendry Jr. McHendry, George F., Jr. 103

7 Shot in the Back: Articulating the Ideologies of the Minutemen through a Political Trial / Zach Justus Justus, Zach 117

IV Performative Affects

8 Looking "Illegal": Affect, Rhetoric, and Performativity in Arizona's Senate Bill 1070 / Josue David Cisneros Cisneros, Josue David 133

9 Love, Loss, and Immigration: Performative Reverberations between a Great-Grandmother and Great-Granddaughter / Bernadette Marie Calafell Calafell, Bernadette Marie 151

10 Borders without Bodies: Affect, Proximity, and Utopian Imaginaries through "Lines in the Sand" / Dustin Bradley Goltz Goltz, Dustin Bradley, Kimberlee Pé rez rez, Kimberlee Pé 163

V Media Circuits

11 Transborder Politics: The Embodied Call of Conscience in Traffic / Brian L. Ott Ott, Brian L., Diane M. Keeling Keeling, Diane M. 181

12 Decriminalizing Illegal Immigration: Immigrants' Rights through the Documentary Lens / Anne Teresa Demo Demo, Anne Teresa 197

13 The Ragpicker-Citizen / Toby Miller Miller, Toby 213.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [235]-264) and index.

ISBN:

9780817357160

0817357165

9780817386054

081738605X

OCLC:

769430618