How the West was Juan
Subtitle: reimagining the U.S.-Mexico border
By: Steven W. Bender
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: San Diego State University Press
Published: 2017
Place of publication: San Diego, CA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 182
ISBN-13: 9781938537936
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Emigration and immigration; History; Mexican Americans; Politics and government; Law
Description: How the West Was Juan creatively approaches the current political stalemate over restrictive v. compassionate border policy by imagining a different U.S.-Mexico border, one that returns to the early 1800s U.S.-Mexico border. Relocating the border serves the dual purpose of disconnecting the heated immigration debate from the current physical border, and allowing exploration of the physical and cultural space of the U.S. Southwest, where most U.S. Mexicans reside today as they always have.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.