The National Border Patrol Museum (NBPM) in El Paso, Texas,
presents a view of the history, culture, and life along the
U.S.-Mexico border that is not offered in any other museum in the
world. Moreover, it provides an opportunity to study and understand
people and life along the border through the different forms in
which they represent themselves and how they are viewed by others.
Mean Green: Nation Building in the National Border Patrol Museum
presents an analysis of the museum that deploys theoretical
approaches in the disciplines of visual and cultural studies,
border studies, ethnic studies, discourse analysis, museology, and
spatial theory. The objectives of this book are to study the varied
representations, that is, the hypermasculine male and the
disenfranchised "illegal" immigrant, that reinforce and challenge
the dominant discourse present in the hegemonic state; to analyze
why the museum represents a homotopia within the limits of a
heterotopia; to learn how the museum creates imagined communities
through the use of its historical patrimony; to observe the
practices in relations of power by employing the notion of a
panopticon; and, lastly, to understand how the museum is providing
a commodification of symbols to promote the hegemonic state.
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