书目名称 | Rhetoric and Reality on the U.S.—Mexico Border | 副标题 | Place, Politics, Hom | 编辑 | K. Jill Fleuriet | 视频video | | 概述 | Challenges common, widespread, and dangerous misunderstandings of the U.S.-Mexico border, as articulated in media and political discourse.Uses local narratives of leaders and illustrative, sensory exp | 图书封面 |  | 描述 | .Stemming from four years of ethnographic research, media analysis of over 750 national news articles published in the 2010s, and decades of the author’s professional and personal immersion in the Rio Grande Valley of south Texas, .Rhetoric and Reality. illuminates a place at the heart of our national conversation: the U.S.-Mexico border. K. Jill Fleuriet contrasts the rhetoric of national political and media discourse with that of local border leaders in economics, health care, politics, education, law enforcement, philanthropy, and activism. As she deconstructs the common narrative of a border in need of external intervention to control corruption, poverty, sickness, and violence, Fleuriet engagingly illustrates the range of regional organizing, local development strategies, and community responses in the borderlands that ultimately situate the Rio Grande Valley as the “true North” of the U.S. national compass—where the Valley goes, the rest of the country soon will follow. .Rhetoric and Reality. asks us to question our own assumptions, especially about those areas that drive national decisions about resource allocation, economic development and national security..“Rhetoric and R | 出版日期 | Book 2021 | 关键词 | southern US border; national imagination; Texas borderlands; South Texas; discourse; rhetoric; Rio Grande | 版次 | 1 | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-63557-2 | isbn_softcover | 978-3-030-63556-5 | isbn_ebook | 978-3-030-63557-2 | copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerl |
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