Description
Book SynopsisThe National Border Patrol Museum (NBPM) in El Paso, Texas, presents a view of the history, culture, and life along the U.S.-Mexico border that is not offered in any other museum in the world. Moreover, it provides an opportunity to study and understand people and life along the border through the different forms in which they represent themselves and how they are viewed by others. Mean Green: Nation Building in the National Border Patrol Museum presents an analysis of the museum that deploys theoretical approaches in the disciplines of visual and cultural studies, border studies, ethnic studies, discourse analysis, museology, and spatial theory.
The objectives of this book are to study the varied representations, that is, the hypermasculine male and the disenfranchised illegal immigrant, that reinforce and challenge the dominant discourse present in the hegemonic state; to analyze why the museum represents a homotopia within the limits of a heterotopia; to lea
Table of Contents
List of Figures – Acknowledgments – Preface – Situating and Visualizing the National Border Patrol Museum – History of the Border and the Creation of the National Border Patrol Museum – Locus of Order: Spatiality in Nation Building and Cultural Commodification – Wild, Wild West: The Construction and Reconstruction of Racial Identities (Part I) – Homies in the House: The Construction and Reconstruction of Racial Identities (Part II) – Conclusion – Index.
