The Mexican Border Cities - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Mexican Border Cities write by Daniel D. Arreola. This book was released on 1994-02-01. The Mexican Border Cities available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From Matamoros to Tijuana, Mexican border cities have long evoked for their neighbors to the north images of cheap tourist playgrounds and, more recently, industrial satellites of American industry. These sensationalized and simplified perceptions fail to convey the complexity and diversity of urban form and function—and of cultural personality—that characterize these places. The Mexican Border Cities draws on extensive field research to examine eighteen settlements along the 2,000-mile border, ranging from towns of less than 10,000 people to dynamic metropolises of nearly a million. The authors chronicle the cities' growth and compare their urban structure, analyzing them in terms of tourist districts, commercial landscapes, residential areas, and industrial and transportation quarters. Arreola and Curtis contend that, despite their proximity to the United States, the border cities are fundamentally Mexican places, as distinguished by their cultural landscapes, including town plan, land-use pattern, and building fabric. Their study, richly illustrated with over 75 maps and photographs, offers a provocative and insightful interpretation of the geographic anatomy and personality of these fascinating—and rapidly changing—communities.
Where North Meets South
Where North Meets South - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Where North Meets South write by Lawrence A. Herzog. This book was released on 1990. Where North Meets South available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book embraces an emerging paradox of human geography: the growth of cities along international boundaries. For many years the world system was ordered in such a way that international boundaries remained essentially free of human settlement. In the last three decades, however, the axioms of traditional geopolitical organization have been shattered; in a number of areas in the world, including the United States-Mexico, United States-Canada, and western European border regions, boundaries have come to house large-scale cities. -- From Preface (page xi).
Passing
Passing - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Passing write by Rihan Yeh. This book was released on 2018. Passing available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Passing: Two Publics in a Mexican Border City is an ethnography of the public sphere in Tijuana based on intensive fieldwork in 2006 and 2007 and numerous subsequent brief visits. Its central contribution is to develop an ethnographic method for apprehending how the border marks collective subjectivities in ways that illuminate the basic impasses of publicness in general. She examines major communicative genres such as print news, street demonstrations, internet forums, and popular ballads, as well as a variety of minor genres: family discussions, thank-you notes at religious shrines, police encounters, workplace banters, and personal interview. The question of collective subjectivity that she traces through all these examples is particularly live, politically and socially, at the border, where US legal categories forcefully shape the logics of class exclusion-and thus national membership and democratic possibility-that are general in Mexico.
Cities and Citizenship at the U.S.-Mexico Border
Cities and Citizenship at the U.S.-Mexico Border - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Cities and Citizenship at the U.S.-Mexico Border write by K. Staudt. This book was released on 2010-09-27. Cities and Citizenship at the U.S.-Mexico Border available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The volume is a cutting-edge, interdisciplinary approach to analyzing an enormously significant region in ways that clarify the kind of everyday life and work that is generated in a major urban global manufacturing site amid insecurity, inequality, and a virtually absent state.
On the Border
On the Border - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook On the Border write by Andrew Grant Wood. This book was released on 2004-09-14. On the Border available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A stunningly beautiful backdrop where cultures meet, meld, and thrive, the U.S.–Mexico borderlands is one of the most dynamic regions in the Americas. On the Border explores little-known corners of this fascinating area of the world in a rich collection of essays. Beginning with an exploration of mining and the rise of Tijuana, the book examines a number of aspects of the region's social and cultural history, including urban growth and housing, the mysterious underworld of border-town nightlife, a film noir treatment of the Peteet family suicides, borderlands cuisine, the life of squatters, and popular religion. As stimulating as it is lively, On the Border will spark a new appreciation for the range of social and cultural experiences in the borderlands.
