Moreno Mean Green

Nation Building in the National Border Patrol Museum
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-4331-4182-9
Verlag: Peter Lang
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 156 Seiten, Web PDF

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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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Moreno, Gabriela E.

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Museumskunde, Materielle Kultur, Erinnerungskultur
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Allgemeines
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Textlinguistik, Diskursanalyse, Stilistik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures – Acknowledgments – Preface – Situating and Visualizing the National Border Patrol Museum – History of the Border and the Creation of the National Border Patrol Museum – Locus of Order: Spatiality in Nation Building and Cultural Commodification – Wild, Wild West: The Construction and Reconstruction of Racial Identities (Part I) – Homies in the House: The Construction and Reconstruction of Racial Identities (Part II) – Conclusion – Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Gabriela E. Moreno graduated from The University of Arizona with a Ph.D. in Hispanic literature, emphasis in border studies. She is Assistant Professor at New Mexico State University where she oversees the SHL/SNS Language Program. She is a co-author of Tertulia: La escritura como acto público, social y cultural. She currently serves as co-advisor for two student-led groups: CAMP and MHAR. Her primary research interests include heritage languages/cultures/identities, border issues, immigration, language socialization, and languages in contact.