Standing on Common Ground The Making of a Sunbelt Borderland

Name: Standing on Common Ground The Making of a Sunbelt Borderland
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ISBN: 9780674058118

ISBN-10: 0674058119

ISBN-13: 9780674058118

Edition: 2013

Authors: Geraldo L. Cadava

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Under constant surveillance and policed by increasingly militarized means, Arizona's border is portrayed in the media as a site of sharp political and ethnic divisions. But this view obscures the region's deeper history. Bringing to light the shared cultural and commercial ties through which businessmen and politicians forged a transnational Sunbelt, Standing on Common Ground recovers the vibrant connections between Tucson, Arizona, and the neighboring Mexican state of Sonora. Geraldo L. Cadava corrects misunderstandings of the borderland's past and calls attention to the many types of exchange, beyond labor migrations, that demonstrate how the United States and Mexico continue to shape one…

Book details

List price: $43.50
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 11/1/2013
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 320
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.386

Geraldo L. Cadava is Assistant Professor of History at Northwestern University.



Prologue: Tucson, Arizona


Introduction



Defending the Borderland



La Fiesta de los Vaqueros



Jï¿½come's Mission



Student Movements



Violence and Sanctuary



Two Horsemen


Conclusion


Notes


Acknowledgments


Index