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Rhetoric and reality on the U.S.-Mexico border : place, politics, home / K. Jill Fleuriet.

9783030635572 (electronic bk.)
3030635570 (electronic bk.)
3030635562 (print)
9783030635565 (print)

Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]

©2021

English

1 online resource (xx, 286 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour)

10.1007/978-3-030-63557-2 doi

F787 .F54 2021

305.8009721

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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