Border Theory: The Limits of Cultural Politics

ISBN-10
0816629625
ISBN-13
9780816629626
Category
Political Science
Pages
266
Language
English
Published
1997
Publisher
U of Minnesota Press
Authors
David E. Johnson, Scott Michaelsen, John E. Johnson

Description

Challenging the prevailing assumption that border studies occurs only in "the borderlands" where Mexico and the United States meet, the authors gathered in this volume examine the multiple borders that define the United States and the Americas, including the Mason-Dixon line, the U.S.-Canadian border, the shifting boundaries of urban diasporas, and the colonization and confinement of American Indians. These writers -- drawn from anthropology, history, and language studies -- critique the terrain, limits, and possibilities of border theory. They examine, among other things, the "soft" or "friendly" borders produced by ethnic studies, antiassimilationist or "difference" multiculturalisms, liberal anthropologies, and benevolent nationalisms.

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