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Border identifications: narratives of religion, gender, and class on the U.S.-Mexico border [Libro electrónico] / Pablo Vila

Por: Vila, Pablo [autor/a].
Tipo de material: Libro en línea Libro en línea Series Editor: Austin: University of Texas Press, c2005Descripción: x, 302 páginas : ilustraciones ; 24 centímetros.ISBN: 0292702914; 0292705832; 9780292797130.Tema(s): Group identity -- Mexico -- Ciudad Juarez | Group identity -- Texas -- El Paso | Group identity -- Mexican-American Border RegionDescriptor(es) geográficos: Ciudad Juarez (Mexico) -- Social conditions | El Paso (Tex.) -- Social conditions | Mexican-American Border Region -- Social conditionsNota de acceso: Disponible para usuarios de ECOSUR con su clave de acceso Nota de bibliografía: Incluye bibliografía e índice: páginas 283-292 Número de sistema: 54827Contenidos:Mostrar Resumen:
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From poets to sociologists, many people who write about life on the U.S.-Mexico border use terms such as "border crossing" and "hybridity" which suggest that a unified culture-neither Mexican nor American, but an amalgamation of both-has arisen in the borderlands. But talking to people who actually live on either side of the border reveals no single commonly shared sense of identity, as Pablo Vila demonstrated in his bookCrossing Borders, Reinforcing Borders: Social Categories, Metaphors, and Narrative Identities on the U.S.-Mexico Frontier. Instead, people living near the border, like people everywhere, base their sense of identity on a constellation of interacting factors that includes regional identity, but also nationality, ethnicity, and race. In this book, Vila continues the exploration of identities he began inCrossing Borders, Reinforcing Bordersby looking at how religion, gender, and class also affect people's identifications of self and "others" among Mexican nationals, Mexican immigrants, Mexican Americans, Anglos, and African Americans in the Cuidad Juárez-El Paso area. Among the many fascinating issues he raises are how the perception that "all Mexicans are Catholic" affects Mexican Protestants and Pentecostals; how the discourse about proper gender roles may feed the violence against women that has made Juárez the "women's murder capital of the world"; and why class consciousness is paradoxically absent in a region with great disparities of wealth. His research underscores the complexity of the process of social identification and confirms that the idealized notion of "hybridity" is only partially adequate to define people's identity on the U.S.-Mexico border.

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Incluye bibliografía e índice: páginas 283-292

Acknowledgments.. Introduction.. Chapter 1. Catholicism and mexicanness on the U.S.-Mexico Border.. Chapter 2. Mexican and Mexican American protestants.. Chapter 3. Regionalized gender narratives on the Mexican side of the border.. Chapter 4. Gender, nationality, and ethnicity on the American side of the border.. Chapter 5. The problematic class discourse on the border: The Mexican side.. Chapter 6. The problematic class discourse on the border: The American side.. Chapter 7. Conclusions.. Notes.. Bibliography.. Index

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From poets to sociologists, many people who write about life on the U.S.-Mexico border use terms such as "border crossing" and "hybridity" which suggest that a unified culture-neither Mexican nor American, but an amalgamation of both-has arisen in the borderlands. But talking to people who actually live on either side of the border reveals no single commonly shared sense of identity, as Pablo Vila demonstrated in his bookCrossing Borders, Reinforcing Borders: Social Categories, Metaphors, and Narrative Identities on the U.S.-Mexico Frontier. Instead, people living near the border, like people everywhere, base their sense of identity on a constellation of interacting factors that includes regional identity, but also nationality, ethnicity, and race. In this book, Vila continues the exploration of identities he began inCrossing Borders, Reinforcing Bordersby looking at how religion, gender, and class also affect people's identifications of self and "others" among Mexican nationals, Mexican immigrants, Mexican Americans, Anglos, and African Americans in the Cuidad Juárez-El Paso area. Among the many fascinating issues he raises are how the perception that "all Mexicans are Catholic" affects Mexican Protestants and Pentecostals; how the discourse about proper gender roles may feed the violence against women that has made Juárez the "women's murder capital of the world"; and why class consciousness is paradoxically absent in a region with great disparities of wealth. His research underscores the complexity of the process of social identification and confirms that the idealized notion of "hybridity" is only partially adequate to define people's identity on the U.S.-Mexico border. eng

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