Rhetoric and reality on the U.S.-Mexico border : place, politics, home / K. Jill Fleuriet.
2021
F787 .F54 2021
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Title
Rhetoric and reality on the U.S.-Mexico border : place, politics, home / K. Jill Fleuriet.
ISBN
9783030635572 (electronic bk.)
3030635570 (electronic bk.)
3030635562 (print)
9783030635565 (print)
3030635570 (electronic bk.)
3030635562 (print)
9783030635565 (print)
Published
Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]
Copyright
©2021
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xx, 286 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour)
Other Standard Identifiers
10.1007/978-3-030-63557-2 doi
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F787 .F54 2021
Dewey Decimal Classification
305.8009721
Summary
Stemming from four years of ethnographic research, media analysis of over 750 national news articles published in the 2010s, and decades of the authors professional and personal immersion in the Rio Grande Valley of south Texas, Rhetoric and Reality illuminates a place at the heart of our national conversation: the U.S.-Mexico border. K. Jill Fleuriet contrasts the rhetoric of national political and media discourse with that of local border leaders in economics, health care, politics, education, law enforcement, philanthropy, and activism. As she deconstructs the common narrative of a border in need of external intervention to control corruption, poverty, sickness, and violence, Fleuriet engagingly illustrates the range of regional organizing, local development strategies, and community responses in the borderlands that ultimately situate the Rio Grande Valley as the true North of the U.S. national compass where the Valley goes, the rest of the country soon will follow. Rhetoric and Reality asks us to question our own assumptions, especially about those areas that drive national decisions about resource allocation, economic development and national security.
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Table of Contents
Introduction
Home and faraway places
How we tell the stories we tell
The valley as the border, the border as a dangerous, faraway place
The valley in the time of Trump, or why the border stereotype is so durable
The border and the valley as home
"Border" problems : real and otherwise
Crossing borders : partnerships and the story of UTRGV
Flipping the script about the Rio Grande Valley and the border during turbulent times.
Home and faraway places
How we tell the stories we tell
The valley as the border, the border as a dangerous, faraway place
The valley in the time of Trump, or why the border stereotype is so durable
The border and the valley as home
"Border" problems : real and otherwise
Crossing borders : partnerships and the story of UTRGV
Flipping the script about the Rio Grande Valley and the border during turbulent times.