Title: American encounters
First published: 1998
Description: The idea of crossing the border between the U.S. and what Jose Limon calls "Greater Mexico" has always conjured images of racial hostility and exclusion. Award-winning anthropologist Limon looks into history, politics, literature, folklore, ethnography, biography, film, song, and dance to probe the deeply entwined and ambivalent relationship between both sides the border over the last 150 years.

From the writing of Katherine Anne Porter to the life of the late Chicana pop star Selena; from the career of the distinguished Mexican anthropologist Manuel Gamio to Henry Cisneros and the 1990 Texas gubernatorial campaign; from Cormac McCarthy to John Sayles's film Lone Star, Limon's analysis engages us in the political, popular, and cultural dimensions of the border and offers hope for the future.
Subjects: Ethnic identity, Acculturation, Mexican Americans in motion pictures, Mexican Americans in literature, Relations, Social aspects, Mexican Americans, Social aspects of Erotica, Erotica, Kulturelle Identitat, International relations, Kulturbeziehungen, Culture in motion pictures, Geschichte, Chicanos, United states, relations, mexico, Mexico, foreign relations, United states, social life and customs, Mexico, social life and customs
Places: Mexico, United States
LC classification: E183.8.M6 L53 1998