Passing
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Passing

Two Publics in a Mexican Border City

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Passing

Two Publics in a Mexican Border City

About this book

Tijuana is the largest of Mexico's northern border cities, and although it has struggled during the United States' dramatic escalation of border enforcement, it nonetheless remains deeply connected with California by one of the largest, busiest international ports of entry in the world. In Passing, Rihan Yeh probes the border's role in shaping Mexican senses of self and collectivity. Drawing on extensive fieldwork, Yeh examines a range of ethnographic evidence: public demonstrations, internet forums, popular music, dinner table discussions, police encounters, workplace banter, intensely personal interviews, and more.  Through these everyday exchanges, she shows how the promise of passage and the threat of prohibition shape Tijuana's communal sense of "we" and throw into relief long-standing divisions of class and citizenship in Mexico.
 
Out of the nitty-gritty of quotidian talk and interaction in Tijuana, Yeh captures the dynamics of desire and denial that permeate public spheres in our age of transnational crossings and fortified borders. Original and accessible, Passing is a timely work in light of current fierce debates over immigration, Latin American citizenship, and the US-Mexico border.

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Index

Agua Caliente Casino, 92n6, 93n8
Aguilar Camín, Héctor, A Future for Mexico, 14–15
All Mexico movement, 13. See also Mexican-American war
“already.” See ya (already)
Althusser, Louis, 173
American Dream, in Tijuana, 97, 107, 108, 111. See also Tijuana
amparo (protection), in Mexico City, 174–75n6
anarchists, 47
Anderson, Benedict, 125, 205, 215
Anglos, 11, 16. See also gringos; United States
anomie, in Tijuana, 102–3
Anzaldúa, Gloria, 4
Apter, Andrew, 106–7
Apter, Emily, 72, 183
Arellano Félix Cartel, 206
aristocracy: vs. bourgeoisie, 106; European, 104. See also gente decente (upper class)
assassin, as hero, 152
assembly plant, 75–85, 114n1; black-and-white binary within, 83–85; described, 113; employees in, seeking visas, 161–66; social structure of, 75–85. See also assembly plant industry; Border Crossing Card (“laser visa”); maquiladora (assembly plant)
assembly plant industry, x, xi, 7n8, 91; Dara on workers in, 100–101, 100n14. See also assembly plant; maquiladora (assembly plant)
authenticity: anxiety over, 173; vs. mimesis, 110. See also citizen(s); citizenship; identification (ID)
autodefensa (community policing), 151
Azuela, Mariano, 149n11
back stage, of politics and elite, 54–60, 61n12, 66, 69–70, 71t, 152–54, 209–10, 214–15. See also front stage, of politics and elite
Baja California, 18, 148; rebellious tradition in, 107. See also Tijuana
Bakhtin, M. M., 117, 117n10
barda (fence): Line vs., 194; meaning “border,” 111; metaphor for social boundaries, 111. See also border (frontera); Line, the (la Línea)
baseball, 47, 81. See also soccer; South (of Mexico), opposed to Tijuana
Benveniste, Émile, 5n6, 22, 123, 210
Bhabha, Homi, 14, 15
Blanchot, Maurice, 228, 229, 238, 246
“Boletín de Prensa” (corrido by Los Tucanes de Tijuana), 210–14, 226
border (frontera), 4; ambivalence and, 15; closure of, 32–33, 41–42, 41n17, 44, 49; and corrido, 197; creation of, 13; crossing, as rite of passage, 135; and death, 8, 174, 227, 228; elicits social boundaries, 12, 13, 35, 40, 43–44, 46, 132–35, 249; and exclusions,...

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. Note to the Reader
  6. Methods/Debts
  7. Introduction
  8. I: Passage/Prohibition. Overview
  9. II: Prohibition/Passage. Overview
  10. Conclusion
  11. Acknowledgments
  12. Appendix: Interview Excerpts from Chapter 2
  13. References
  14. Index
  15. Footnotes