| Contents |
Borders that travel: matters of the figural border / Kent A. Ono -- Bordering as social practice: intersectional identifications and coalitional possibilities / Julia R. Johnson -- Border interventions: the need to shift from a rhetoric of security of security to a rhetoric of militarization / Karma R. Chávez -- A dispensational rhetoric in "The Mexican question in the Southwest" / Michelle A. Holling -- Mobilizing for national inclusion: the discursivity of whiteness among Texas Mexicans' arguments for desegregation / Lisa A. Flores and Mary Ann Villareal -- The attempted legitimation of the vigilante civil border patrols, the militarization of the Mexican-US border, and the law of unintended consequences / Marouf Hasian, Jr. and George F. McHendry, Jr. -- Shot in the back: articulating the ideologies of the Minutemen through a political trial / Zach Justus -- Looking "illegal": affect, rhetoric, and performativity in Arizona's Senate Bill 1070 / Josue David Cisneros -- Love, loss, and immigration: performative reverberations between a great grandmother and a great granddaughter / Bernadette Marie Calafell -- Borders without bodies: affect, proximity, and utopian imaginaries through lines in the sand / Dustin Bradley Goltz and Kimberlee Pérez -- Transborder politics: the embodied call of conscience in Traffic / Brian L. Ott and Diane M. Keeling -- Decriminalization illegal immigration: immigrants' rights through the documentary lens / Anne Teresa Demo -- The ragpicker-citizen / Toby Miller -- Afterword: border optics / John Louis Lucaites. |
