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Fragmented Lives, Assembled Parts - Culture, Capitalism, and Conquest at the U.S.-Mexico Border (Paperback)
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Fragmented Lives, Assembled Parts - Culture, Capitalism, and Conquest at the U.S.-Mexico Border (Paperback)
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Southwest Book Award, Border Regional Library Association, 2008
Association of Latina and Latino Anthropologists Book Award, 2009
Established in 1659 as Mision de Nuestra Senora de Guadalupe de los
Mansos del Paso del Norte, Ciudad Juarez is the oldest colonial
settlement on the U.S.-Mexico border-and one of the largest
industrialized border cities in the world. Since the days of its
founding, Juarez has been marked by different forms of conquest and
the quest for wealth as an elaborate matrix of gender, class, and
ethnic hierarchies struggled for dominance. Juxtaposing the early
Spanish invasions of the region with the arrival of
late-twentieth-century industrial "conquistadors," Fragmented
Lives, Assembled Parts documents the consequences of imperial
history through in-depth ethnographic studies of working-class
factory life. By comparing the social and human consequences of
recent globalism with the region's pioneer era, Alejandro Lugo
demonstrates the ways in which class mobilization is itself
constantly being "unmade" at both the international and personal
levels for border workers. Both an inside account of maquiladora
practices and a rich social history, this is an interdisciplinary
survey of the legacies, tropes, economic systems, and gender-based
inequalities reflected in a unique cultural landscape. Through a
framework of theoretical conceptualizations applied to a range of
facets-from multiracial "mestizo" populations to the notions of
border "crossings" and "inspections," as well as the recent brutal
killings of working-class women in Ciudad Juarez-Fragmented Lives,
Assembled Parts provides a critical understanding of the effect of
transnational corporations on contemporary Mexico, calling for
official recognition of the desperate need for improved working and
living conditions within this community.
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