Barbarians at the Wall: How America Learned to Fear Its Neighbors
Autor Dr. or Prof. Juan de Dios Vázquezen Limba Engleză Paperback – 4 ian 2027
Juan de Dios Vázquez examines the border as a global symbol: a stage where fear, nationalism, and technological surveillance converge. He traces how language, media, and law work together to dehumanize migrants and recode Mexico from economic partner to existential threat. From Trump's second presidency to President Claudia Sheinbaum's diplomatic response, the book also highlights how Mexico has pushed back with strategy, dignity, and innovation. This work is not just a critique but a call to reimagine. This is a book for readers who want to understand not only the cruelty of border regimes but the myths that sustain them and how they might be undone.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9798216453024
Pagini: 272
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 mm
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Locul publicării:New York, United States
Pagini: 272
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 mm
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Locul publicării:New York, United States
Cuprins
Foreword by Doris Sommer
Introduction - Not Civilized (White) Enough
Chapter 1 - The Ones Who Were Not We
Chapter 2 - It Starts with a Stone
Chapter 3 - On the Other's Loom
Chapter 4 - The Indispensable Foe
Chapter 5 - Brick by Brick, Bullet by Bullet
Chapter 6 - Tariffs, Fentanyl, and the Narco-Barbarian
Chapter 7 - The Enemy's New Skin
Chapter 8 - The Beauty and the Beast
Chapter 9 - The Barbarian Within
Chapter 10 - Cracks in the Wall
Epilogue - Drawing the Lines Anew
Introduction - Not Civilized (White) Enough
Chapter 1 - The Ones Who Were Not We
Chapter 2 - It Starts with a Stone
Chapter 3 - On the Other's Loom
Chapter 4 - The Indispensable Foe
Chapter 5 - Brick by Brick, Bullet by Bullet
Chapter 6 - Tariffs, Fentanyl, and the Narco-Barbarian
Chapter 7 - The Enemy's New Skin
Chapter 8 - The Beauty and the Beast
Chapter 9 - The Barbarian Within
Chapter 10 - Cracks in the Wall
Epilogue - Drawing the Lines Anew
Recenzii
In Barbarians at the Wall, Vázquez examines the political construction of migrants as adversaries infiltrating our societies, threatening or even destroying our identity and future. Yet another reality deserves recognition: migrants have always been here, helping build the rich, strong, and diverse modern societies we are today. A book worth reading for much-needed reflection.
This brilliant book helps us think through one of the most fraught problems of our times: the wall separating the US from its southern neighbor. Drawing on historical and humanistic inquiry, Vázquez renders the wall in its many dimensions: brick and mortar, symbolic barrier, ideological construct, and ever-expanding machine of separation. Here is scholarship at its most enlightening and courageous.
A necessary and timely book, Barbarians at the Wall articulates discourse analysis, ideology and political practices. Deep but accessible, Vázquez penetrates the intricacies of identity and otherness through a wise exploration of cultural history, exposing the connections between barbarism and citizenship, mystification and dehumanization. A crucial intervention in the debates surrounding the current migration crisis, its roots and its effects.
Vázquez offers an insider's look at the historical challenges of managing the border between the United States and Mexico. The historical, economic, and familial ties that bind our two nations have led them to swing from allies to enemies and back again. His book is current, humane, and forward looking, connecting the past to where we are today and where we may be headed tomorrow: what was made by history can be unmade.
Barbarians at the Wall tells how America learned to see its southern neighbor, and the Mexicans and Mexican Americans within its borders, as a threat. Vázquez traces that idea from antiquity through conquest, racial stereotype, immigration law, and the War on Drugs. But it is also about what becomes possible beyond fear, and how migration made America what it is.
Gripping and rigorous, Juan de Dios Vázquez's book dissects the ways in which fear, in one part of the U.S. population, turned migrants into invaders and into "barbarians." Among its many consequences is the recasting of a strategic neighbor, Mexico, as a geopolitical adversary. Understanding the metamorphosis of so vast a border requires books like Vázquez's. It is essential reading.
This brilliant book helps us think through one of the most fraught problems of our times: the wall separating the US from its southern neighbor. Drawing on historical and humanistic inquiry, Vázquez renders the wall in its many dimensions: brick and mortar, symbolic barrier, ideological construct, and ever-expanding machine of separation. Here is scholarship at its most enlightening and courageous.
A necessary and timely book, Barbarians at the Wall articulates discourse analysis, ideology and political practices. Deep but accessible, Vázquez penetrates the intricacies of identity and otherness through a wise exploration of cultural history, exposing the connections between barbarism and citizenship, mystification and dehumanization. A crucial intervention in the debates surrounding the current migration crisis, its roots and its effects.
Vázquez offers an insider's look at the historical challenges of managing the border between the United States and Mexico. The historical, economic, and familial ties that bind our two nations have led them to swing from allies to enemies and back again. His book is current, humane, and forward looking, connecting the past to where we are today and where we may be headed tomorrow: what was made by history can be unmade.
Barbarians at the Wall tells how America learned to see its southern neighbor, and the Mexicans and Mexican Americans within its borders, as a threat. Vázquez traces that idea from antiquity through conquest, racial stereotype, immigration law, and the War on Drugs. But it is also about what becomes possible beyond fear, and how migration made America what it is.
Gripping and rigorous, Juan de Dios Vázquez's book dissects the ways in which fear, in one part of the U.S. population, turned migrants into invaders and into "barbarians." Among its many consequences is the recasting of a strategic neighbor, Mexico, as a geopolitical adversary. Understanding the metamorphosis of so vast a border requires books like Vázquez's. It is essential reading.
Notă biografică
Juan de Dios Vázquez is a former Professor at Harvard University, University of Pennsylvania, and New York University, and former Chief of Staff at Mexico's National Public Security Office. A recipient of Mexico's National Historical Award, he is the author of several forthcoming books on politics, culture, and philosophy.