Crossing Borders, Reinforcing Borders: Social Categories, Metaphors, and Narrative Identities on the U.S.-Mexico Frontier
Author:   Pablo Vila
Publisher:   University of Texas Press
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Pages:   304
Publication Date:   01 May 2000
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Crossing Borders, Reinforcing Borders: Social Categories, Metaphors, and Narrative Identities on the U.S.-Mexico Frontier


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Author:   Pablo Vila
Publisher:   University of Texas Press
Imprint:   University of Texas Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.426kg
ISBN:  

9780292787407


ISBN 10:   0292787405
Pages:   304
Publication Date:   01 May 2000
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

PrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction Chapter 1. The Mexican Side: Discourses of RegionChapter 2. The Mexican Side: Discourses of NationChapter 3. The Emplotment of the Mexican on the U.S. Side of the BorderChapter 4. Mexican Immigrants and the All Poverty Is Mexican Narrative PlotChapter 5. Operation Blockade, or When Private Narratives Went PublicChapter 6. Dialogical Social Science and the Possibility of Narrating Better Stories Appendix. Categories, Interpellations, Metaphors, and Narratives: A Brief Theoretical DiscussionNotesBibliographyIndex

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Pablo Vila is Professor of Sociology at Temple University in Philadelphia. He conducted this study from 1991 to 1997, while teaching at the University of Texas at El Paso.

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