Challenging the prevailing assumption that border studies occurs only in "the borderlands" where Mexico and the United States meet, the authors gathered in this volume examine the multiple borders that define the United States and the Americas, including the Mason-Dixon line, the U.S.-Canadian border, the shifting boundaries of urban diasporas, and the colonization and confinement of American Indians.These writers -- drawn from anthropology, history, and language studies -- critique the terrain, limits, and possibilities of border theory. They examine, among other things, the "soft" or "friendly" borders produced by ethnic studies, antiassimilationist or "difference" multiculturalisms, liberal anthropologies, and benevolent nationalisms.
- ISBN10 0816629625
- ISBN13 9780816629626
- Publish Date 1 December 1997 (first published 22 October 1997)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 7 May 2002
- Publish Country US
- Imprint University of Minnesota Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 280
- Language English