Border Rhetorics : Citizenship and Identity on the US-Mexico Frontier.
Title:
Border Rhetorics : Citizenship and Identity on the US-Mexico Frontier.
Author:
Calafell, Bernadette Marie.
ISBN:
9780817386054
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (284 pages)
Series:
Albma Rhetoric Cult & Soc Crit
Contents:
Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: For Rhetorical Border Studies - D. Robert DeChaine -- I. Conceptual Orientations -- 1. Borders That Travel: Matters of the Figural Border - Kent A. Ono -- 2. Bordering as Social Practice: Intersectional Identifications and Coalitional Possibilities - Julia R. Johnson -- 3. Border Interventions: The Need to Shift from a Rhetoric of Security to a Rhetoric of Militarization - Karma R. Chávez -- II. Historical Consequences -- 4. A Dispensational Rhetoric in "The Mexican Question in the Southwest" - Michelle A. Holling -- 5. Mobilizing for National Inclusion: The Discursivity of Whiteness among Texas Mexicans' Arguments for Desegregation - Lisa A. Flores and Mary Ann Villarreal -- III. Legal Acts -- 6. The Attempted Legitimation of the Vigilante Civil Border Patrols, the Militarization of the Mexican-USBorder, and the Law of Unintended Consequences - Marouf Hasian Jr. and George F. McHendry Jr. -- 7. Shot in the Back: Articulating the Ideologies of the Minutemen through a Political Trial - Zach Justus -- IV . Performative Affects -- 8. Looking "Illegal": Affect, Rhetoric, and Performativity in Arizona's Senate Bill - Josue David Cisneros -- 9. Love, Loss, and Immigration: Performative Reverberations between a Great-Grandmother and Great-Granddaughter - Bernadette Marie Calafell -- 10. Borders without Bodies: Affect, Paroximity, and Utopian Imaginaries through "Lines in the Sand" - Dustin Bradley Goltz and Kimberlee Perez -- V. Media Circuits -- 11. Transborder Politics: The Embodied Call of Conscience in Traffic - Brian L. Ott and Diane M. Keeling -- 12. Decriminalizing Illegal Immigration: Immigrants' Rights through the Documentary Lens - Anne Teresa Demo -- 13. The Ragpicker-Citizen - Toby Miller -- Afterword: Border Optics - John Louis Lucaites -- Suggested Readings -- Works Cited -- Contributors.
Index.
Abstract:
Border Rhetorics is a collection of essays that undertakes a wide-ranging examination of the US-Mexico border as it functions in the rhetorical production of civic unity in the United States. A "border" is a powerful and versatile concept, variously invoked as the delineation of geographical territories, as a judicial marker of citizenship, and as an ideological trope for defining inclusion and exclusion. It has implications for both the empowerment and subjugation of any given populace. Both real and imagined, the border separates a zone of physical and symbolic exchange whose geographical, political, economic, and cultural interactions bear profoundly on popular understandings and experiences of citizenship and identity. The border's rhetorical significance is nowhere more apparent, nor its effects more concentrated, than on the frontier between the United States and Mexico. Often understood as an unruly boundary in dire need of containment from the ravages of criminals, illegal aliens, and other undesirable threats to the national body, this geopolitical locus exemplifies how normative constructions of "proper"; border relations reinforce definitions of US citizenship, which in turn can lead to anxiety, unrest, and violence centered around the struggle to define what it means to be a member of a national political community. Contributors Bernadette Marie Calafell / Karma R. Chávez / Josue David Cisneros / D. Robert DeChaine / Anne Teresa Demo / Lisa A. Flores / Dustin Bradley Goltz / Marouf Hasian Jr. / Michelle A. Holling / Julia R. Johnson / Zach Juatus / Diane M. Keeling / John Louis Lucaites / George F. McHendry Jr. / Toby Miller / Kent A. Ono / Brian L. Ott / Kimberlee Pérez / Mary Ann Villarreal.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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