1. La Frontera as Border and Boundary

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Illustrations ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Introduction 1
6. Part 1. Re-viewing La Frontera: Borders versus Boundaries
7. 1. La Frontera as Border and Boundary 13
8. 2. Ambos Nogales: A Tale of Two Cities 28
9. 3. Tijuana: The Wall and the Estuary 57
10. 4. Wall and River in the Lower Rio Grande Valley 83
11. Postlude 1. Walled Up and Walled Out 108
12. Part 2. Looking Both Ways at the Border
13. Prelude to Part 2. Friendship Park: First Encounter 115
14. 5. The Creation of an Internal Colony: Santa Barbara, a City Divided against Itself 121
15. 6. Juan Crow: The American Ethnoracial Caste System and the Criminalization of Mexican Migrants 146
16. 7. The Souls of Anglos 184
17. 8. Border-Wall Art as Limit Acts 207
18. 9. Creating Communities of Hospitality: Growing Connective Tissue between Immigrants and Citizens 228
19. Postlude 2. Gaining Access to the Heart of Our Home 249
20. Epilogue: From Standing in the Shadows of Walls to Imagining Them Otherwise 252
21. Notes 259
22. Bibliography 273
23. Index 283