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Building walls, excluding Latin people in the United States, Ernesto Castañeda

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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non fiction

Building walls

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Ernesto Castañeda

excluding Latin people in the United States

"Building Walls puts the recent calls to build a border wall along the US-Mexico border into a larger social and historical context. Its three sections contrast categorical thinking and anti-immigrant speech with immigration as it is experienced by border residents and immigrants themselves"--, Provided by publisher

Part I: Categorical Thinking : 1. The Historical and Contemporary Exclusion of Latin People from the American Identity / with Maura Fennelly -- 2. Migration and Its Challenges to Political Theory and Nationalism -- 3. Boundary Formation: Nationalism, Immigration, and Categorical Inequality between Americans and Mexicans -- Part II: Anti-Immigrant Speech : 4. Border Vigilantes at the University: Anti-immigrant Discourse and Ideological Campaigns -- 5. Fronting the White Storm / with Dennis West -- 6. Anti-immigrant Online Comment Sections in the Aftermath of Trump's Election / with Catherine Harlos -- Part III. Immigration as an Experience : 7. Different Understandings of the Border Wall: The Social Meanings of the Wall for Border Residents -- 8. Fear of Deporation among Mexicans Fleeing Violence / with Natali Collazos, Eva M. Moya, and Silvia Chávez-Baray -- 9. Invisible New Yorkers: Boudaries, Interethnic Networks, Immigrant Integration, and Social Invisibility -- 10. Why Walls Won't Work: Interactions between Latin Immigrants and Americans / with Maura Fennelly