Book
Border visions: Mexican cultures of the Southwest United States
University of Arizona Press • Tucson • Published In 1996 • Pages:
By: Vélez-Ibáñez, Carlos G..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Vélez-Ibáñez examines the effect of the Mexican-U.S. border on Mexican American history, identity, and culture. He begins by establishing the fact that there is a long history (and prehistory) of north-south movement of people between what is today central Mexico and southwestern United States. He then discusses how Anglo-Americans dispossessed Mexican Americans of their land after the Mexican war (1846), turning the latter into a pool of cheap labor and creating what he calls a 'Mexican commodity identity.' He next discusses survival strategies based on ritually maintained household clusters, which were involved in various levels of exchanges. Household clusters were also the basis for identity, socialization, and education. Vélez-Ibáñez recounts the terrible toll poverty, drugs, war, and crime have taken and the final convulsive reaction in the 1960s Chicano movement. He analyzes the mural art and literature from this period and the particular kind of hybrid cultural and ethnic identity it reflects.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- External migration
- Cultural revitalization and ethnogenesis
- Labor
- Verbal arts
- Visual arts
- Ethnic stratification
- Household
- Community structure
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Chicanos
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2002
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Regional, Ethnic and Diaspora Cultures
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Ian Skoggard ; 2001
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- not specified
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1848-1994
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Southwest United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Carlos G. Vélez-Ibáñez
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [323]-341) and index
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 96010100
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Mexican Americans