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Borders: Solving the Mexican (American) Problem
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Borders:
Solving the Mexican (American) Problem
For several decades, social scientists and historians have attempted explain the origins of social issues unique to Latinos in the U.S. This article reviews existing literature written largely by Chicano/a authors on the Mexican (American) experience and focuses on an important common theme – that of Borders, either physical or symbolic, that are created to divide two groups perceived as distinct and often incompatible, based on stereotypes of cultural and social difference. By utilizing historical and contemporary analyses of national memory and of the public and institutional rhetoric around social problems like illegal immigration, this paper seeks to advance our understanding of how Borders define people of Mexican descent as distinct through both racial and nationalist imagery. The author suggests the implication of this metaphor for theories of race and nation that have thus far excluded the Mexican experience from consideration.
Keywords:
Borders, Chicano/a, illegal immigration, history, memory, nativism, racism
American Sociological Association
Submission for Latino/a Sociology Section
By Monica D. Sosa (## email not listed ##)
Ph.D. Program, University of Michigan
January 20, 2005
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Borders:
Solving the Mexican (American) Problem
For several decades, social scientists and historians have attempted explain the
origins of social issues unique to Latinos in the U.S. This article reviews existing
literature written largely by Chicano/a authors on the Mexican (American)
experience and focuses on an important common theme – that of Borders, either
physical or symbolic, that are created to divide two groups perceived as distinct
and often incompatible, based on stereotypes of cultural and social difference. By
utilizing historical and contemporary analyses of national memory and of the
public and institutional rhetoric around social problems like illegal immigration,
this paper seeks to advance our understanding of how Borders define people of
Mexican descent as distinct through both racial and nationalist imagery. The
author suggests the implication of this metaphor for theories of race and nation
that have thus far excluded the Mexican experience from consideration.
Keywords:
Borders, Chicano/a, illegal immigration, history, memory, nativism, racism
American Sociological Association
Submission for Latino/a Sociology Section
By Monica D. Sosa (## email not listed ##)
Ph.D. Program, University of Michigan
January 20, 2005
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