Border visions : Mexican cultures of the Southwest United States /

"The U.S.-Mexico border region is home to anthropologist Carlos Velez-Ibanez. Into these pages he pours nearly half a century of searching and finding answers to the Mexican experience in the southwestern United States. He describes and analyzes the process, as generation upon generation of Mex...

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Main Author: Vélez-Ibañez, Carlos G., 1936-
Language:English
Published: Tucson : University of Arizona Press, ©1996.
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Table of Contents:
  • The continuing process : an ethnobiography. Without borders, the original vision
  • The American entrada : barrioization and the development of Mexican commodity identity
  • Political process, cultural invention, and social frailty : road to discovery. The politics of survival and revival : the struggle for existence and cultural dignity, 1848
  • 1994
  • Living in confianza and patriarchy : the cultural systems of U.S. Mexican households
  • The distribution of sadness : poverty, crime, drugs, illness, and war
  • 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
  • Conclusions : unmasking borders of minds and method.