Fragmented Lives, Assembled Parts Culture, Capitalism, and Conquest at the U. S. -Mexico Border

Name: Fragmented Lives, Assembled Parts Culture, Capitalism, and Conquest at the U. S. -Mexico Border
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ISBN: 9780292717671

ISBN-10: 0292717679

ISBN-13: 9780292717671

Edition: 2008

Authors: Alejandro Lugo

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Established in 1659 as Misin de Nuestra Seora de Guadalupe de los Mansos del Paso del Norte, Ciudad Jurez is the oldest colonial settlement on the U.S.-Mexico border-and one of the largest industrialized border cities in the world. Since the days of its founding, Jurez has been marked by different forms of conquest and the quest for wealth as an elaborate matrix of gender, class, and ethnic hierarchies struggled for dominance. Juxtaposing the early Spanish invasions of the region with the arrival of late-twentieth-century industrial "conquistadors," Fragmented Lives, Assembled Parts documents the consequences of imperial history through in-depth ethnographic studies of working-class factory…

Book details

List price: $32.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Publication date: 8/1/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 339
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.96" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English

ALEJANDRO LUGO is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Latina/Latino Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is the co-editor (with Bill Maurer) of Gender Matters: Rereading Michelle Rosaldo.



Acknowledgments



Introduction



Sixteenth-Century Conquests (1521-1598) and Their Postcolonial Border Legacies



The Invention of Borderlands Geography: What Do Aztlan and Tenochtitlan Have to Do with Ciudad Juarez/Paso del Norte?



The Problem of Color in Mexico and on the U.S.-Mexico Border: Precolonial, Colonial, and Postcolonial Subjectivities



Culture, Class, and Gender in Late-Twentieth-Century Ciudad Juarez



Maquiladoras, Gender, and Culture Change



The Political Economy of Tropes, Culture, and Masculinity Inside an Electronics Factory



Border Inspections: Inspecting the Working-Class Life of Maquiladora Workers on the U.S-Mexico Border



Culture, Class, and Union Politics: The Daily Struggle for Chairs inside a Sewing Factory in the Larger Context of the Working Day



Women, Men, and "Gender" in Feminist Anthropology: Lessons from Northern Mexico's Maquiladoras



Alternating Imaginings



Reimagining Culture and Power against Late Industrial Capitalism and Other Forms of Conquest through Border Theory and Analysis


Epilogue


Notes


Bibliography


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Index