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Visiones de frontera: las culturas mexicanas del suroeste de Estados Unidos by Carlos G. Vélez-Ibáñez; prólogo de Carlos Monsiváis is a book available to read on EtoBox.

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The U.S.-Mexico border region is home to anthropologist Carlos Velez-Ibanez. Into these pages he pours nearly half a century of searching and finding answers to the Mexican experience in the southwestern United States. He describes and analyzes the process, as generation upon generation of Mexicans moved north and attempted to create an identity or "sense of cultural space and place." In today's border fences he also sees barriers to how Mexicans understand themselves and how they are fundamentally understood. From prehistory to the present, Velez-Ibanez traces the intense "bumping" among Native Americans, Spaniards, and Mexicans, as Mesoamerican population and ideas moved northward. He demonstrates how "cultural glue" is constantly replenished through strong family ties that reach across both sides of the border. The author describes ways in which Mexicans have resisted and accommodated the dominant culture by creating communities and by forming labor unions, voluntary associations, and cultural movements. He analyzes "the distribution of sadness," or overrepresenation of Mexicans in poverty, crime, illnes, and war, and shows how that sadness is balanced by creative expressions of

Author

Carlos G. Vélez-Ibáñez; prólogo de Carlos Monsiváis

Publisher

Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social; Miguel Ángel Porrúa

Published

1999

Language

ES

ISBN

9789688429501

Subjects

History, Humanities

Updated

2026-03-24