Border visions
Subtitle: Mexican cultures of the Southwest United States
By: Carlos G. Vélez-Ibáñez.
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Tucson
Language: eng
Number of pages: 360
Subjects: Mexican Americans -- Southwest, New; Mexican Americans -- Southwest, New -- Social conditions; Mexican Americans -- Southwest, New -- Ethnic identity; Mexican-American Border Region; Mexico -- Emigration and immigration; Southwest, New -- Emigration and immigration
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [323]-341) and index.
Table of contents: title: The continuing process : an ethnobiography. Without borders, the original vision; title: The American entrada : barrioization and the development of Mexican commodity identity; title: Political process, cultural invention, and social frailty : road to discovery. The politics of survival and revival : the struggle for existence and cultural dignity, 1848; title: 1994; title: Living in confianza and patriarchy : the cultural systems of U.S. Mexican households; title: The distribution of sadness : poverty, crime, drugs, illness, and war; title: So farewell hope and with hope farewell fear, coming full circle : finding a place and space. The search for meaning and space through literature. Making pictures : U.S. Mexican place and space in mural art; title: Conclusions : unmasking borders of mind and method.