Postborder city
Subtitle: cultural spaces of Bajalta California
By: edited by Michael Dear and Gustavo Leclerc ; with contributions by Jo-Anne Berelowitz ... [et al.].
Contributors: Dear, M. J.; Leclerc, Gustavo.; Berelowitz, Jo-Anne.
Publisher: Routledge; Routledge, in association with the Southern California Studies Center of the University of Southern California
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 305
Subjects: Arts and society -- California, Southern; Arts and society -- Mexico -- Baja California (State); Cities and towns -- California, Southern; Cities and towns -- Mexico -- Baja California (State); Social change -- California, Southern; Social change -- Mexico -- Baja California (State); California, Southern -- Intellectual life; Baja California (Mexico : State) -- Intellectual life; California, Southern -- Relations -- Baja California (Mexico : State); Baja California (Mexico : State) -- Relations -- California, Southern
Description: This title concerns the postborder metropolis of Bajalta, California, which stretches from Los Angeles in the north to Tijuana and Mexicali in the south. Immigrants flock to Southern California, while corporations are drawn to the low wage industry of the Mexican border towns.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : the postborder condition : art and urbanism in Bajalta California / Michael Dear & Gustavo Leclerc; title: "Where are you going to be worthier?" (the border and the postborder) / Carlos Monsiváis; title: Peopling Alta California / Phoebe Kropp & Michael Dear; title: Peopling Baja California / Hector Manuel Lucero; title: Global Tijuana : seven ecologies of the border / Lawrence Herzog; title: Border art since 1965 / Jo-Anne Berelowitz; title: Border representations : frontier cinema and independent video / Norma Iglesias; title: 'Where am I at home?' the interplay of national, local, and imaginative space / Richard Cándida Smith; title: Hybridities and histories : imaging the rim / David Palumbo-Liu; title: Rewriting cultural studies in the borderlands; title: Néstor García Canclini.