Building walls : excluding Latin people in the United States / Ernesto Castañeda.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Castañeda, Ernesto, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Latin Americans--United States--Social conditions.

Latin Americans.

Boundaries.

History.

Social conditions.

Mexican-American Border Region--Emigration and immigration.

Mexican-American Border Region.

United States--Politics and government--2017-2021.

United States.

Politics and government.

United States--Boundaries--Mexico--History.

Mexico--Boundaries--United States--History.

Mexico.

Emigration and immigration.

Latin Americans--Social conditions.

North America--Mexican-American Border Region.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xi, 223 : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2019]

Summary:

Building Walls: Excluding Latin People in the United States puts the recent calls to build a wall along the border into context by describing the building of boundaries, both symbolic and physical, and the consequences they have in the lives of immigrants and Latin communities in the United States. This book discusses the debates on how to name people of Latin American origin. Building Walls is divided into three parts: categorical thinking, anti-immigrant speech, and immigration as an experience, and shows how together these different dimensions create durable inequalities between U.S.-native whites, Latinos, and newcomers--back cover.

Contents:

Part I: Categorical Thinking : 1. The Historical and Contemporary Exclusion of Latin People from the American Identity / with Maura Fennelly

2. Migration and Its Challenges to Political Theory and Nationalism

3. Boundary Formation: Nationalism, Immigration, and Categorical Inequality between Americans and Mexicans

Part II: Anti-Immigrant Speech : 4. Border Vigilantes at the University: Anti-immigrant Discourse and Ideological Campaigns

5. Fronting the White Storm / with Dennis West

6. Anti-immigrant Online Comment Sections in the Aftermath of Trump's Election / with Catherine Harlos

Part III. Immigration as an Experience : 7. Different Understandings of the Border Wall: The Social Meanings of the Wall for Border Residents

8. Fear of Deporation among Mexicans Fleeing Violence / with Natali Collazos, Eva M. Moya, and Silvia Chávez-Baray

9. Invisible New Yorkers: Boudaries, Interethnic Networks, Immigrant Integration, and Social Invisibility

10. Why Walls Won't Work: Interactions between Latin Immigrants and Americans / with Maura Fennelly.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-212) and index.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

1498585655

9781498585651

OCLC:

1084683706