Passing: Two Publics in a Mexican Border City

Passing: Two Publics in a Mexican Border City
ISBN-10
022651191X
ISBN-13
9780226511917
Series
Passing
Category
Social Science
Pages
313
Language
English
Published
2018
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Author
Rihan Yeh

Description

Passing: Two Publics in a Mexican Border City is an ethnography of the public sphere in Tijuana based on intensive fieldwork in 2006 and 2007 and numerous subsequent brief visits. Its central contribution is to develop an ethnographic method for apprehending how the border marks collective subjectivities in ways that illuminate the basic impasses of publicness in general. She examines major communicative genres such as print news, street demonstrations, internet forums, and popular ballads, as well as a variety of minor genres: family discussions, thank-you notes at religious shrines, police encounters, workplace banters, and personal interview. The question of collective subjectivity that she traces through all these examples is particularly live, politically and socially, at the border, where US legal categories forcefully shape the logics of class exclusion-and thus national membership and democratic possibility-that are general in Mexico.

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