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Since the end of the Second World War the map of the Americas has
changed dramatically. Not only were many former European colonies
turned into sovereign states, there was also an ongoing process of
region-making recognizable throughout the hemisphere and obvious
through the establishment of several regional agreements. The
emergence of political and economic regional integration blocs is a
very timely topic analyzed by scholars in many disciplines
worldwide. This book looks at remapping the recent trends in
region-making throughout the Americas in a way that hasn't been at
the center of academic analyses so far. While examining these
regionalisation tendencies with a historical background in mind,
the authors also answer fundamental questions such as: What
influences does globalization have on region-making, both on
normative regionalism plans as well as on actual economic,
political, cultural, military and social regionalization processes
driven by state and non-state actors? What ideas or interests lead
states in the Americas to cooperate or compete with one another and
how is this power distributed? How do these regional agreements
affect trade relations and have there been trade barriers set up to
protect national economies? What agreements exist or have existed
and how did they change with regard to contents and for what
reason? The book informs academic as well as non-academic audiences
about regional developments in the Americas, in particular those
dating back to the last twenty years. Beyond the primary purpose of
summarizing the hemisphere's recent trends, the book also brings
clarification in a detailed but easy to understand way about timely
issues regarding the institutionalisation, or lack thereof, of the
plethora of regional and sub-regional bodies that have emerged in
this hemisphere over the past couple of decades.
Since the end of the Second World War the map of the Americas has
changed dramatically. Not only were many former European colonies
turned into sovereign states, there was also an ongoing process of
region-making recognizable throughout the hemisphere and obvious
through the establishment of several regional agreements. The
emergence of political and economic regional integration blocs is a
very timely topic analyzed by scholars in many disciplines
worldwide. This book looks at remapping the recent trends in
region-making throughout the Americas in a way that hasn't been at
the center of academic analyses so far. While examining these
regionalisation tendencies with a historical background in mind,
the authors also answer fundamental questions such as: What
influences does globalization have on region-making, both on
normative regionalism plans as well as on actual economic,
political, cultural, military and social regionalization processes
driven by state and non-state actors? What ideas or interests lead
states in the Americas to cooperate or compete with one another and
how is this power distributed? How do these regional agreements
affect trade relations and have there been trade barriers set up to
protect national economies? What agreements exist or have existed
and how did they change with regard to contents and for what
reason? The book informs academic as well as non-academic audiences
about regional developments in the Americas, in particular those
dating back to the last twenty years. Beyond the primary purpose of
summarizing the hemisphere's recent trends, the book also brings
clarification in a detailed but easy to understand way about timely
issues regarding the institutionalisation, or lack thereof, of the
plethora of regional and sub-regional bodies that have emerged in
this hemisphere over the past couple of decades.
On September 9, 1921, a tropical depression stalled just north of
San Antonio and within hours overwhelmed its winding network of
creeks and rivers. Floodwaters ripped through the city's Latino
West Side neighborhoods, killing more than eighty people. Meanwhile
a wall of water crashed into the central business district on the
city's North Side, wreaking considerable damage. The city's
response to this disaster shaped its environmental policies for the
next fifty years, carving new channels of power. Decisions about
which communities would be rehabilitated and how thoroughly were
made in the political arena, where the Anglo elite largely ignored
the interlocking problems on the impoverished West Side that flowed
from poor drainage, bad housing, and inadequate sanitation. Instead
the elite pushed for the $1.6 million construction of the Olmos
Dam, whose creation depended on a skewed distribution of public
benefits in one of America's poorest big cities. The discriminatory
consequences, channeled along ethnic and class lines, continually
resurfaced until the mid-1970s, when Communities Organized for
Public Services, a West Side grassroots organization, launched a
successful protest that brought much-needed flood control to often
inundated neighborhoods. This upheaval, along with COPS's emergence
as a power broker, disrupted Anglo domination of the political
landscape to more accurately reflect the city's diverse population.
West Side Rising is the first book focused squarely on San
Antonio's enduring relationship to floods, which have had severe
consequences for its communities of color in particular. Examining
environmental, social, and political histories, Char Miller
demonstrates that disasters can expose systems of racism,
injustice, and erasure and, over time, can impel activists to
dismantle these inequities. He draws clear lines between the
environmental injustices embedded in San Antonio's long history and
the emergence of grassroots organizations that combated the
devastating impact floods could have on the West Side.
William D. Lopez details the incredible strain that immigration
raids place on Latino communities-and the families and friends who
must recover from their aftermath. 2020 International Latino Book
Awards Winner First Place, Mariposa Award for Best First Book -
Nonfiction Honorable Mention, Best Political / Current Affairs Book
On a Thursday in November 2013, Guadalupe Morales waited anxiously
with her sister-in-law and their four small children. Every Latino
man who drove away from their shared apartment above a small auto
repair shop that day had failed to return-arrested, one by one, by
ICE agents and local police. As the two women discussed what to do
next, a SWAT team clad in body armor and carrying assault rifles
stormed the room. As Guadalupe remembers it, "The soldiers came in
the house. They knocked down doors. They threw gas. They had guns.
We were two women with small children . . . The kids terrified, the
kids screaming." In Separated, William D. Lopez examines the
lasting damage done by this daylong act of collaborative
immigration enforcement in Washtenaw County, Michigan. Exploring
the chaos of enforcement through the lens of community health,
Lopez discusses deportation's rippling negative effects on
families, communities, and individuals. Focusing on those left
behind, Lopez reveals their efforts to cope with trauma, avoid
homelessness, handle worsening health, and keep their families
together as they attempt to deal with a deportation machine that is
militarized, traumatic, implicitly racist, and profoundly violent.
Lopez uses this single home raid to show what immigration law
enforcement looks like from the perspective of the people who
actually experience it. Drawing on in-depth interviews with
twenty-four individuals whose lives were changed that day in 2013,
as well as field notes, records obtained under the Freedom of
Information Act, and his own experience as an activist, Lopez
combines rigorous research with moving storytelling. Putting faces
and names to the numbers behind deportation statistics, Separated
urges readers to move beyond sound bites and consider the human
experience of mixed-status communities in the small towns that dot
the interior of the United States.
What we call "North America" today is a human space that has been
constructed over the centuries, perceived from time immemorial by
its original inhabitants as a unified whole, and named Turtle
Island. What is North America today? Is it more than the sum of its
parts? Does it qualify as a distinct global region? Is it just a
market or also something else? This book explores several neglected
aspects of the key relationships between Canada, Mexico and the
United States. Studies of societal relations in North America have
typically been limited to trade, investment and intergovernmental
relations. In contrast, the authors in this book address other
vital issues which bind this global region together, including
Indigenous peoples, security, migration, civil societies,
democracy, identities and culture. Via a thorough examination of
these issues, the historical, sociological, economic, and political
aspects of regional linkages are highlighted. Rather than dealing
with each country in isolation, each chapter in this collection
considers North America as a single unit of analysis, therefore
systematically addressing the regional dynamic as a whole, and
engaging the country-specific differences in a truly comparative
way. By providing the analytical tools needed, this important book
makes sense of the different aspects of the complex societies of
contemporary North America.
What we call "North America" today is a human space that has been
constructed over the centuries, perceived from time immemorial by
its original inhabitants as a unified whole, and named Turtle
Island. What is North America today? Is it more than the sum of its
parts? Does it qualify as a distinct global region? Is it just a
market or also something else? This book explores several neglected
aspects of the key relationships between Canada, Mexico and the
United States. Studies of societal relations in North America have
typically been limited to trade, investment and intergovernmental
relations. In contrast, the authors in this book address other
vital issues which bind this global region together, including
Indigenous peoples, security, migration, civil societies,
democracy, identities and culture. Via a thorough examination of
these issues, the historical, sociological, economic, and political
aspects of regional linkages are highlighted. Rather than dealing
with each country in isolation, each chapter in this collection
considers North America as a single unit of analysis, therefore
systematically addressing the regional dynamic as a whole, and
engaging the country-specific differences in a truly comparative
way. By providing the analytical tools needed, this important book
makes sense of the different aspects of the complex societies of
contemporary North America.
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