El Paso
Subtitle: local frontiers at a global crossroads
By: Victor M. Ortíz-González
Series: Globalization and community -- v. 13
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Minneapolis, Minn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 172
Subjects: Mexican Americans -- Texas -- El Paso; Globalization; El Paso (Tex.); El Paso (Tex.) -- Ethnic relations
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 161-167) and index
Table of contents: title: Introduction : otherness and globalization on the U.S.-Mexican border and beyond; title: Between an image and a hard place; title: Undermining reality; title: La vista grande : the common ground of displacements and breakthroughs; title: Local democracy and global demography : new parameters of community; title: Conclusion : El Paso as an eternal-yet not final-frontier