Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: For Rhetorical Border Studies - D. Robert DeChaine
I. Conceptual Orientations
1. Borders That Travel: Matters of the Figural Border - Kent A. Ono
2. Bordering as Social Practice: Intersectional Identifications and Coalitional Possibilities - Julia R. Johnson
3. Border Interventions: The Need to Shift from a Rhetoric of Security to a Rhetoric of Militarization - Karma R. Chávez
II. Historical Consequences
4. A Dispensational Rhetoric in “The Mexican Question in the Southwest” - Michelle A. Holling
5. Mobilizing for National Inclusion: The Discursivity of Whiteness among Texas Mexicans’ Arguments for Desegregation - Lisa A. Flores and Mary Ann Villarreal
III. Legal Acts
6. The Attempted Legitimation of the Vigilante Civil Border Patrols, the Militarization of the Mexican-USBorder, and the Law of Unintended Consequences - Marouf Hasian Jr. and George F. McHendry Jr.
7. Shot in the Back: Articulating the Ideologies of the Minutemen through a Political Trial - Zach Justus
IV . Performative Affects
8. Looking “Illegal”: Affect, Rhetoric, and Performativity in Arizona’s Senate Bill - Josue David Cisneros
9. Love, Loss, and Immigration: Performative Reverberations between a Great-Grandmother and Great-Granddaughter - Bernadette Marie Calafell
10. Borders without Bodies: Affect, Paroximity, and Utopian Imaginaries through "Lines in the Sand" - Dustin Bradley Goltz and Kimberlee Perez
V. Media Circuits
11. Transborder Politics: The Embodied Call of Conscience in Traffic - Brian L. Ott and Diane M. Keeling
12. Decriminalizing Illegal Immigration: Immigrants’ Rights through the Documentary Lens - Anne Teresa Demo
13. The Ragpicker-Citizen - Toby Miller
Afterword: Border Optics - John Louis Lucaites
Suggested Readings
Works Cited
Contributors
Index