This interdisciplinary collection brings together essays on the cultural effects of globalization at the U.S.-Mexico and U.S.-Canada borders. Artists, activists, and scholars from American Studies, anthropology, Chicano studies, English, folklore, history, and political science examine a wide range of cultural practices in border areas, including cross-border shopping, migration, and transnational media spectatorship. Contributors focus on a variety of border crossers and residents, such as Mexican migrants in the American Southwest, indigenous peoples in the Lake Ontario region, undocumented Chinese immigrants at the U.S.-Canada border, environmental groups in Arizona, NAFTA-displaced women laborers in Texas, squatter communities in Baja California, and maquiladora workers in Chihuahua.
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"Exceptional for the outstanding quality and internal coherence of the articles included throughout, Globalization on the Line is a timely and consistent critique of the all too-facile"global multiculturalism" that has dominated academic discourse since Gloria Anzaldúa's publication of Borderlands. T he contributors question the validity of "theorizing from the border" when in fact the border, as a place, remains largely unstudied and unknown. [U]nusual for its dual focus on both the U.S.-Canada and the U.S.-Mexico borders, Globalization on the Line will be not only necessary reading in cultural studies courses but it will shape our discussions in the field in the years to come." --Silvia Spitta, author ofBetween Two Waters: Narratives of Transculturation in Latin America
"In this collection Sadowski-Smith has brought together an exciting range of essays by scholars, artists, and activists on culture and globalization. The strength of this collection is in the essays; it is not so much a "new take" on globalization and culture as it is a close look at a variety of cultural practices in which the effects of globalization are especially visible." --Priscilla Wald, author of Constituting Americans: Cultural Anxiety and Narrative Form
"In this collection Sadowski-Smith has brought together an exciting range of essays by scholars, artists, and activists on culture and globalization. The strength of this collection is in the essays; it is not so much a "new take" on globalization and culture as it is a close look at a variety of cultural practices in which the effects of globalization are especially visible." --Priscilla Wald, author of Constituting Americans: Cultural Anxiety and Narrative Form
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Claudia Sadowski-Smith is Assistant Professor in the Department of English at Texas Tech University. She has published articles on border studies, literatures of the U.S.-Mexico border, and globalization theory.
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I begin writing this essay one day after Seattle riot police "managed" the crowds protesting the opening of the 2000 World Trade Organization (WTO) Millennium talks. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, New York, Maclovio Rojas, Latin American, Baja California, Mexican American, San Diego, Los Angeles, North American, Malpai Group, Mexico City, Jay Treaty, American Indian, Border Hotel, Performing the Border, Green Valley, Duke University Press, Iroquois Confederacy, Malpai Borderlands Group, Nature Conservancy, Six Nations Reserve, Michael Schnorr, The Magic of Blood, University of Minnesota Press, University of Texas New!
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I begin writing this essay one day after Seattle riot police "managed" the crowds protesting the opening of the 2000 World Trade Organization (WTO) Millennium talks. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, New York, Maclovio Rojas, Latin American, Baja California, Mexican American, San Diego, Los Angeles, North American, Malpai Group, Mexico City, Jay Treaty, American Indian, Border Hotel, Performing the Border, Green Valley, Duke University Press, Iroquois Confederacy, Malpai Borderlands Group, Nature Conservancy, Six Nations Reserve, Michael Schnorr, The Magic of Blood, University of Minnesota Press, University of Texas New!
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- Globalization and Its Discontents: Essays on the New Mobility of People and Money by Saskia Sassen on 4 pages
- Border Writing: The Multidimensional Text (Theory and History of Literature) by D. Emily Hicks in Front Matter, page 55, and page 67
- Barrio Boy by Ernesto Galarza on page 54, page 59, and page 67
- The Politics of Culture in the Shadow of Capital (Post-Contemporary Interventions) by Lisa Lowe in Front Matter, page 94, and page 96
- The Cultures of Globalization (Post-Contemporary Interventions) by Fredric Jameson in Front Matter (1), Front Matter (2), and page 51
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