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Author Lugo, Alejandro, 1962-

Title Fragmented lives, assembled parts [electronic resource] : culture, capitalism, and conquest at the U.S.-Mexico border / Alejandro Lugo.

Imprint Austin : University of Texas Press, 2008.

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Edition 1st ed.
Description xiii, 323 p. : ill., maps.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-301) and index.
Contents Sixteenth-century conquests (1521-1598) and their postcolonial border legacies -- The invention of borderlands geography : what do Aztlan and Tenochtitlan have to do with Ciudad Juarez/Paso del Norte? -- The problem of color in Mexico and on the U.S.-Mexico border : precolonial, colonial, and postcolonial subjectivities -- Culture, class, and gender in late twentieth-century Ciudad Juarez -- Maquiladoras, gender, and culture change -- The political economy of tropes, culture, and masculinity inside an electronics factory -- Border inspections : inspecting the working-class life of maquiladora workers on the U.S-Mexico border -- Culture, class, and union politics : the daily struggle for chairs inside a sewing factory in the larger context of the working day -- Women, men, and "gender" in feminist anthropology : lessons from northern Mexico's maquiladoras -- Alternating imaginings -- Reimagining culture and power against late industrial capitalism and other forms of conquest through border theory and analysis.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Offshore assembly industry -- Employees -- Mexico -- Ciudad Juarez.
Ciudad Juarez (Mexico) -- Social conditions.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780292717664 (cloth : alk. paper)
0292717660 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780292717671 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0292717679 (pbk. : alk. paper)

 
    
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