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A compelling ethnographic examination of global capitalism's impact, colonial and post-colonial, in Mexico's Ciudad Juárez.

Table of Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Chapter 1. Introduction
  • Part I. Sixteenth-Century Conquests (1521-1598) and their Postcolonial Border Legacies
    • Chapter 2. The Invention of Borderlands Geography: What Do Aztlán and Tenochtitlán Have to Do with Ciudad Juárez/Paso del Norte?
    • Chapter 3. The Problem of Color in Mexico and on the U.S.-Mexico Border: Precolonial, Colonial, and Postcolonial Subjectivities
  • Part II. Culture, Class, and Gender in Late-Twentieth-Century Ciudad Juárez
    • Chapter 4. Maquiladoras, Gender, and Culture Change
    • Chapter 5. The Political Economy of Tropes, Culture, and Masculinity Inside an Electronics Factory
    • Chapter 6. Border Inspections: Inspecting the Working-Class Life of Maquiladora Workers on the U.S-Mexico Border
    • Chapter 7. Culture, Class, and Union Politics: The Daily Struggle for Chairs inside a Sewing Factory in the Larger Context of the Working Day
    • Chapter 8. Women, Men, and "Gender" in Feminist Anthropology: Lessons from Northern Mexico's Maquiladoras
  • Part III. Alternating Imaginings
    • Chapter 9. Reimagining Culture and Power against Late Industrial Capitalism and Other Forms of Conquest through Border Theory and Analysis
  • Epilogue
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Permissions Credits
  • Index

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      Publisher: University of Texas Press
      Publication Date: 01/08/2008
      ISBN13: 9780292717671, 978-0292717671
      ISBN10: 0292717679
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      A compelling ethnographic examination of global capitalism's impact, colonial and post-colonial, in Mexico's Ciudad Juárez.

      Table of Contents
      • Acknowledgments
      • Chapter 1. Introduction
      • Part I. Sixteenth-Century Conquests (1521-1598) and their Postcolonial Border Legacies
        • Chapter 2. The Invention of Borderlands Geography: What Do Aztlán and Tenochtitlán Have to Do with Ciudad Juárez/Paso del Norte?
        • Chapter 3. The Problem of Color in Mexico and on the U.S.-Mexico Border: Precolonial, Colonial, and Postcolonial Subjectivities
      • Part II. Culture, Class, and Gender in Late-Twentieth-Century Ciudad Juárez
        • Chapter 4. Maquiladoras, Gender, and Culture Change
        • Chapter 5. The Political Economy of Tropes, Culture, and Masculinity Inside an Electronics Factory
        • Chapter 6. Border Inspections: Inspecting the Working-Class Life of Maquiladora Workers on the U.S-Mexico Border
        • Chapter 7. Culture, Class, and Union Politics: The Daily Struggle for Chairs inside a Sewing Factory in the Larger Context of the Working Day
        • Chapter 8. Women, Men, and "Gender" in Feminist Anthropology: Lessons from Northern Mexico's Maquiladoras
      • Part III. Alternating Imaginings
        • Chapter 9. Reimagining Culture and Power against Late Industrial Capitalism and Other Forms of Conquest through Border Theory and Analysis
      • Epilogue
      • Notes
      • Bibliography
      • Permissions Credits
      • Index

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