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Border People: Life and Society in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands

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While the U.S.-Mexico borderlands resemble border regions in other parts of the world, nowhere else do such a lot of millions of people from two dissimilar nations live in such close proximity and interact with every other so intensely. Borderlanders are singular in their history, outlook, and behavior, and their way of life deviates from the norms of central Mexico and the interior United States; yet these Mexicans, Mexican-Americans, and Anglo-Americans also differ among themselves, and within every group is also found cross-border consumers, commuters, and people who find themselves inclined or disinclined to embrace both cultures. According to firsthand interviews with individuals from all walks of life, Border People presents case histories of transnational interaction and transculturation, and addresses the themes of cross-border migration, interdependence, labor, border management, ethnic war of words, cultural fusion, and social activism. Here migrants and workers, functionaries and activists, and “mixers” who have crossed cultural boundaries recall events in their lives related to life on the border. Their stories show how their lives have been shaped by the borderlands milieu and how they’ve responded to the situations they’ve faced. Border People shows that these borderlanders live in a unique human environment shaped by physical distance from central areas and constant exposure to transnational processes. The oral histories contained here reveal, to some extent that no scholarly analysis can, that borderlanders are indeed people, every with his or her own individual point of view, hopes, and dreams.

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