
Border Rhetorics
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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: For Rhetorical Border Studies - D. Robert DeChaine
- I. Conceptual Orientations
- 1. Borders That Travel: Matters of the Figural Border - Kent A. Ono
- 2. Bordering as Social Practice: Intersectional Identifications and Coalitional Possibilities - Julia R. Johnson
- 3. Border Interventions: The Need to Shift from a Rhetoric of Security to a Rhetoric of Militarization - Karma R. Chávez
- II. Historical Consequences
- 4. A Dispensational Rhetoric in "The Mexican Question in the Southwest" - Michelle A. Holling
- 5. Mobilizing for National Inclusion: The Discursivity of Whiteness among Texas Mexicans' Arguments for Desegregation - Lisa A. Flores and Mary Ann Villarreal
- III. Legal Acts
- 6. The Attempted Legitimation of the Vigilante Civil Border Patrols, the Militarization of the Mexican-USBorder, and the Law of Unintended Consequences - Marouf Hasian Jr. and George F. McHendry Jr.
- 7. Shot in the Back: Articulating the Ideologies of the Minutemen through a Political Trial - Zach Justus
- IV . Performative Affects
- 8. Looking "Illegal": Affect, Rhetoric, and Performativity in Arizona's Senate Bill - Josue David Cisneros
- 9. Love, Loss, and Immigration: Performative Reverberations between a Great-Grandmother and Great-Granddaughter - Bernadette Marie Calafell
- 10. Borders without Bodies: Affect, Paroximity, and Utopian Imaginaries through "Lines in the Sand" - Dustin Bradley Goltz and Kimberlee Perez
- V. Media Circuits
- 11. Transborder Politics: The Embodied Call of Conscience in Traffic - Brian L. Ott and Diane M. Keeling
- 12. Decriminalizing Illegal Immigration: Immigrants' Rights through the Documentary Lens - Anne Teresa Demo
- 13. The Ragpicker-Citizen - Toby Miller
- Afterword: Border Optics - John Louis Lucaites
- Suggested Readings
- Works Cited
- Contributors
- Index
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