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Border Identifications: Narratives of Religion, Gender, and Class on the U.S.-Mexico Border

Border Identifications: Narratives of Religion, Gender, and Class on the U.S.-Mexico Border

Vila, Pablo

Paperback

Series: Inter-America

General Racism & Ethnic StudiesGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 0292705832
ISBN13: 9780292705838
Publisher: Univ Of Texas Pr
Published: Aug 1 2005
Pages: 312
Weight: 1.11
Height: 0.81 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.04
Language: English

From poets to sociologists, many people who write about life on the U.S.-Mexico border use terms such as border crossing and hybridity which suggest that a unified culture-neither Mexican nor American, but an amalgamation of both-has arisen in the borderlands. But talking to people who actually live on either side of the border reveals no single commonly shared sense of identity, as Pablo Vila demonstrated in his book Crossing Borders, Reinforcing Borders: Social Categories, Metaphors, and Narrative Identities on the U.S.-Mexico Frontier. Instead, people living near the border, like people everywhere, base their sense of identity on a constellation of interacting factors that includes regional identity, but also nationality, ethnicity, and race.

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