Passing : two publics in a Mexican border city / Rihan Yeh.
2018
JV7409.Z6 T594 2018 (Mapit)
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Title
Passing : two publics in a Mexican border city / Rihan Yeh.
Author
Yeh, Rihan, author.
ISBN
9780226511917 (paperback)
022651191X (paperback)
9780226511887 (hardcover)
022651188X (hardcover)
9780226512075 (electronic book)
022651191X (paperback)
9780226511887 (hardcover)
022651188X (hardcover)
9780226512075 (electronic book)
Published
Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2018.
Language
English
Description
xv, 295 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Call Number
JV7409.Z6 T594 2018
Dewey Decimal Classification
304.80972/23
Summary
Tijuana is the largest of Mexico's northern border cities, and although it has struggled during the United States' dramatic escalation of border enforcement, it nonetheless remains deeply connected with California by one of the largest, busiest international ports of entry in the world. In Passing, Rihan Yeh probes the border's role in shaping Mexican senses of self and collectivity. Drawing on extensive fieldwork, Yeh examines a range of ethnographic evidence: public demonstrations, internet forums, popular music, dinner table discussions, police encounters, workplace banter, intensely personal interviews, and more. Through these everyday exchanges, she shows how the promise of passage and the threat of prohibition shape Tijuana's communal sense of"we" and throw into relief long-standing divisions of class and citizenship in Mexico. Out of the nitty-gritty of quotidian talk and interaction in Tijuana, Yeh captures the dynamics of desire and denial that permeate public spheres in our age of transnational crossings and fortified borders. Original and accessible, Passing is a timely work in light of current fierce debates over immigration, Latin American citizenship, and the US-Mexico border.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
Passage/prohibition
Overview
The line
Inâes's "I"
The assembly plant
The place where anything can happen
"They say" in the country club
Prohibition/passage
Overview
Clase media and pueblo before the law
The visa interview
Passes
The street is a river
The stone.
Overview
The line
Inâes's "I"
The assembly plant
The place where anything can happen
"They say" in the country club
Prohibition/passage
Overview
Clase media and pueblo before the law
The visa interview
Passes
The street is a river
The stone.