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Book SynopsisUsing the U.S. wall at the border with Mexico as a focal point, two experts examine the global surge of economic and environmental refugees, presenting a new vision of the relationships between citizen and migrant in an era of “Juan Crow,” which systemati
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Table of Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part 1. Re-viewing La Frontera: Borders versus Boundaries
- 1. La Frontera as Border and Boundary
- 2. Ambos Nogales: A Tale of Two Cities
- 3. Tijuana: The Wall and the Estuary
- 4. Wall and River in the Lower Rio Grande Valley
- Postlude 1. Walled Up and Walled Out
- Part 2. Looking Both Ways at the Border
- Prelude to Part 2. Friendship Park: First Encounter
- 5. The Creation of an Internal Colony: Santa Barbara, a City Divided against Itself
- 6. Juan Crow: The American Ethnoracial Caste System and the Criminalization of Mexican Migrants
- 7. The Souls of Anglos
- 8. Border-Wall Art as Limit Acts
- 9. Creating Communities of Hospitality: Growing Connective Tissue between Immigrants and Citizens
- Postlude 2. Gaining Access to the Heart of Our Home
- Epilogue: From Standing in the Shadows of Walls to Imagining Them Otherwise
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
