Fragmented lives, assembled parts [electronic resource] : culture, capitalism, and conquest at the U.S.-Mexico border / Alejandro Lugo.
Material type: TextPublication details: Austin : University of Texas Press, 2008.Edition: 1st edDescription: xiii, 323 p. : ill., mapsSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:- 331.700972/16 22
- HD8039.O332 M61584 2008
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-301) and index.
Sixteenth-century conquests (1521-1598) and their postcolonial border legacies -- The invention of borderlands geography : what do Aztlán and Tenochtitlán have to do with Ciudad Juárez/Paso del Norte? -- The problem of color in Mexico and on the U.S.-Mexico border : precolonial, colonial, and postcolonial subjectivities -- Culture, class, and gender in late twentieth-century Ciudad Juárez -- Maquiladoras, gender, and culture change -- The political economy of tropes, culture, and masculinity inside an electronics factory -- Border inspections : inspecting the working-class life of maquiladora workers on the U.S-Mexico border -- Culture, class, and union politics : the daily struggle for chairs inside a sewing factory in the larger context of the working day -- Women, men, and "gender" in feminist anthropology : lessons from northern Mexico's maquiladoras -- Alternating imaginings -- Reimagining culture and power against late industrial capitalism and other forms of conquest through border theory and analysis.
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