Border Identifications: Narratives of Religion, Gender, and Class on the U.S.-Mexico Border

by Pablo Vila

From poets to sociologists, many people who write about life on the U.S.-Mexico border use terms such as "border crossing" and "hybridity" which suggest that a unified culture-neither Mexican nor American, but an amalgamation of both-has arisen in the borderlands. But talking to people who actually live on either side of the border reveals no single commonly shared sense of identity, as Pablo Vila demonstrated in his book Crossing Borders, Reinforcing...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0292705832
• ISBN13: 9780292705838
• Release Date: August 2005
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.0"