Border Rhetorics by D. DeChaine, Kent Ono, Julia Johnson, Kar... - 9780817357160

Border RhetoricsCitizenship and Identity on the US-Mexico Frontier\nAuthor(s): D. DeChaine, Kent Ono, Julia Johnson, Karma Chvez\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: The University of Alabama Press, United States\nImprint: The University of Alabama Press\nISBN-13: 9780817357160, 978-0817357160\nSynopsis\nBorder Rhetorics is a collection of essays that undertakes a wide-ranging examination of the US-Mexico border as it functions in the rhetorical production of civic unity in the United States. \nA border is a powerful and versatile concept, variously invoked as the delineation of geographical territories, as a judicial marker of citizenship, and as an ideological trope for defining inclusion and exclusion. It has implications for both the empowerment and subjugation of any given populace. Both real and imagined, the border separates a zone of physical and symbolic exchange whose geographical, political, economic, and cultural interactions bear profoundly on popular understandings and experi.