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Tijuana is the largest of Mexico's northern border cities, and although it has struggled with its share of the US's dramatic escalation of border enforcement, it nonetheless remains deeply connected with California by one of the largest, busiest international ports of entry in the world. In Passing, Rihan Yeh probes this border's role as a shaper of Mexican senses of self and collectivity. Building on extensive fieldwork, Yeh examines a range of ethnographic evidence: public demonstrations, internet forums, popular music, dinner table discussions, police encounters, workplace banter, intensely personal interviews, and more. Through these everyday exchanges, she shows how the promise of passage and the threat of prohibition shape Tijuana's residents' communal sense of we and throw into relief longstanding divisions of class and citizenship in Mexico. Out of the nitty-gritty of everyday talk and interaction in Tijuana, Yeh captures the dynamics of desire and denial that permeate public s

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      Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 12/13/2017 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780226511887, 978-0226511887
      ISBN10: 022651188X
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      Tijuana is the largest of Mexico's northern border cities, and although it has struggled with its share of the US's dramatic escalation of border enforcement, it nonetheless remains deeply connected with California by one of the largest, busiest international ports of entry in the world. In Passing, Rihan Yeh probes this border's role as a shaper of Mexican senses of self and collectivity. Building on extensive fieldwork, Yeh examines a range of ethnographic evidence: public demonstrations, internet forums, popular music, dinner table discussions, police encounters, workplace banter, intensely personal interviews, and more. Through these everyday exchanges, she shows how the promise of passage and the threat of prohibition shape Tijuana's residents' communal sense of we and throw into relief longstanding divisions of class and citizenship in Mexico. Out of the nitty-gritty of everyday talk and interaction in Tijuana, Yeh captures the dynamics of desire and denial that permeate public s

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