Ernesto Castañeda

Building Walls

Excluding Latin People in the United States

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The election of Donald Trump has called attention to the border wall and anti-Mexican discourses and policies, yet these issues are not new. Building Walls puts the recent calls to build a border wall along the US-Mexico border into a larger social and historical context. This book describes the building of walls, symbolic and physical, between Americans and Mexicans, as well as the consequences that these walls have in the lives of immigrants and Latin communities in the United States. The book is divided into three parts: categorical thinking, anti-immigrant speech, and immigration as an experience. The sections discuss how the idea of the nation-state itself constructs borders, how political strategy and racist ideologies reinforce the idea of irreconcilable differences between whites and Latinos, and how immigrants and their families overcome their struggles to continue living in America. They analyze historical precedents, normative frameworks, divisive discourses, and contemporary daily interactions between whites and Latin individuals. It discusses the debates on how to name people of Latin American origin and the framing of immigrants as a threat and contrasts them to the experiences of migrants and border residents. Building Walls makes a theoretical contribution by showing how different dimensions work together to create durable inequalities between U.S. native whites, Latinos, and newcomers. It provides a sophisticated analysis and empirical description of racializing and exclusionary processes. View a separate blog for the book here: https://dornsife.usc.edu/csii/blog-building-walls-excluding-people

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 236
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. April 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 498g
• ISBN-13: 9781498585651
• ISBN-10: 1498585655
• Artikelnr.: 56405099

Autorenporträt

By Ernesto Castañeda - Contributions by Silvia Chávez-Baray; Eva Moya; Maura Fennelly; Dennis West; Catherine Harlos and Natali Collazos

Inhaltsangabe

Part I Categorical Thinking 1 The Historical and Contemporary Exclusion of
Latin People from the American Identity with Maura Fennelly 2 Migration and
its Challenges to Political Theory and Nationalism 3 Boundary Formation:
Nationalism, Immigration, and Categorical Inequality between Americans and
Mexicans Part II Anti-Immigrant Speech 4 Border Vigilantes at the
University: Anti-immigrant Discourse and Ideological Campaigns 5 Fronting
the White Storm with Dennis West 6 Anti-Immigrant Online Comment Sections
in the Aftermath of Trump's Election with Catherine Harlos Part III
Immigration as an Experience 7 Different Understandings of the Border Wall:
The Social Meanings of the Wall for Border Residents 8 Fear of Deportation
among Mexicans fleeing Violence with Natali Collazos, Eva Moya, Silvia
Chávez-Baray 9 Invisible New Yorkers: Boundaries, Interethnic Networks,
Immigrant Integration, and Social Invisibility 10 Why Walls Won't Work:
Interactions between Latin Immigrants and Americans with Maura Fennelly
References