{"product_id":"up-against-the-wall-reimagining-the-usmexico-border-louann-atkins-temple-women-culture-series","title":"Up Against the Wall: Re-Imagining the U.S.-Mexico Border (Louann Atkins Temple Women \u0026 Culture Series)","description":"\u003cp\u003eUsing the U.S. wall at the border with Mexico as a focal point  two experts examine the global surge of economic and environmental refugees  presenting a new vision of the relationships between citizen and migrant in an era of Juan Crow  which systematically creates a perpetual undercaste.  Winner  National Association for Ethnic Studies (NAES) Outstanding Book Award  2017 As increasing global economic disparities  violence  and climate change provoke a rising tide of forced migration  many countries and local communities are responding by building wallsliteral and metaphoricalbetween citizens and newcomers. Up Against the Wall: Re-imagining the U.S.-Mexico Border examines the temptation to construct such walls through a penetrating analysis of the U.S. wall at the U.S.-Mexico border  as well as investigating the walling out of Mexicans in local communities. Calling into question the building of a wall against a friendly neighboring nation  Up Against the Wall offers an analysis of the differences between borders and boundaries. This analysis opens the way to envisioning alternatives to the stark and policed divisions that are imposed by walls of all kinds. Tracing the consequences of imperialism and colonization as citizens grapple with new migrant neighbors  the book paints compelling examples from key locales affected by the wallNogales  Arizona vs. Nogales  Sonora; Tijuana\/San Diego; and the lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas. An extended case study of Santa Barbara describes the creation of an internal colony in the aftermath of the U.S. conquest of Mexican land  a history that is relevant to many U.S. cities and towns. Ranging from human rights issues in the wake of massive global migration to the role of national restorative shame in the United States for the treatment of Mexicans since 1848  the authors delve into the broad repercussions of the unjust and often tragic consequences of excluding others through walled structures along with the withholding of citizenship and full societal inclusion. Through the lens of a detailed examination of forced migration from Mexico to the United States  this transdisciplinary text  drawing on philosophy  psychology  and political theory  opens up multiple insights into how nations and communities can coexist with more justice and more compassion.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44987067727925,"sku":"ByrdShop_029275938X","price":32.86,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780292759381.jpg?v=1770923885","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/up-against-the-wall-reimagining-the-usmexico-border-louann-atkins-temple-women-culture-series","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}