The Border Reader

Spotlighting the vibrancy of border studies from the field’s emergence to its enduring significance, __The Border Reader__ brings together canonical and cutting-edge humanities and social science scholarship on the US-Mexico border region. Contents 5 Introduction: On Theories from the Ends 13 Part I: Locating the Border 23 1. Empire and the Origins of Twentieth-Century Migration from Mexico to the United States 23 2. Legal Violence: Immigration Law and the Lives of Central American Immigrants 55 3. Necro-Subjection: On Borders, Asylum, and Making Dead to Let Live 97 4. Reimagining Culture and Power against Late Industrial Capitalism and Other Forms of Conquest through Border Theory and Analysis 118 5. Tijuana Cuir 146 Part II: Documenting Identities 159 6. The United States, Mexico, and Machismo 159 7. The Spanish Settlement of Texas and Arizona 178 8. A Place Called Home: A Queer Political Economy of Mexican Immigrant Men’s Family Experiences 209 9. Migrations 232 Part III: En/Gendering Borders 275 10. Changing Chicano Narratives 275 11. Feminism on the Border: From Gender Politics to Geopolitics 292 12. Trans-migrations: Agency and Confinement at the Limits of Sovereignty 311 13. Carne, Carnales, and the Carnivalesque 334 Part IV: Othering Spaces, Othering Bodies 355 14. The Erotic Zone: Sexual Transgression on the U.S.-Mexican Border 355 15. Medicalizing the Mexican: Immigration, Race, and Disability in the Early Twentieth-Century United States 365 16. “L ooking Like a Lesbian”: The Organization of Sexual Monitoring at the United States–Mexican Border 382 17. Migrant Melancholia: Emergent Discourses of Mexican Migrant Traffic in Transnational Space 412 Part V: Border Crossings 441 18. “Awakening to a Nightmare”: Abjectivity and Illegality in the Lives of Undocumented 1.5-Generation Latino Immigrants in the United States 441 19. Regions of Refuge in the United States: Issues, Problems, and Concerns for the Future of Mexican-Origin Populations in the United States 476 20. The Battle for the Border: Notes on Autonomous Migration, Transnational Communities, and the State 510 21. Yo Era Indígena: Race, Modernity, and the Transformational Politics of Transnational Labor 528 Part VI: New Border Imaginaries 573 22. Tijuana: Hybridity and Beyond: A Conversation with Néstor García Canclini 573 23. The Art of Witness 595 24. Amnesty or Abolition? Felons, Illegals, and the Case for a New Abolition Movement 618 25. How to Tame a Wild Tongue 638 26. “Wavering on the Horizon of Social Being” The Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo and the Legacy of Its Racial Character in Américo Paredes’s George Washington Gómez 649 Contributors 681 Credits 683 Index 687