... Chapter 3 turns to fragmentation, interrupted similes, and women’s dead bodies to show how they reveal the excessive horror of the US-Mexico border and the ongoing nature of imperial, colonial, and gendered violence. Focusing on Roberto Bolaño’s posthumous novel, 2666 (2004), the chapter shows...

... Roberto Bolaño femicides US-Mexico border genre fiction horror ...

... This chapter decenters the traditional focus on the US-Mexico border as a site of migration discourse and shows how the conceptual shift of the border now extends to Mexico-Guatemala, El Salvador–Honduras, Nicaragua–Costa Rica, and even along the “vertical border” that is Mexico. Analyses...

... As with all borders, the international boundary between the United States and Mexico troubles distinctions between strangers and enemies, between the criminal and the law-abiding, between immigrant and citizen. The US-Mexico border specifically, and borders generally, have grown in importance...

... This chapter traces the nature of industrial capitalism as a new form of conquest throughout the past century and the present at the US-Mexico border. Alejandro Lugo’s examination of the region reveals relational conceptions of class and changing conceptions of culture from “shared cultural...

... This chapter gives insight into how cross-border solidarity movements can be constructed and sustained by examining MADRE, a community-based international human rights organization advocating for Indigenous women and girls. Using case studies of social justice campaigns across the US-Mexico...

... brownness Mexico-US border Stations of the Cross Viacrucis ...

... aesthetic unsettlement Mexico-US border sonic rupture sorrow ...

... expanding amalgam connected to multiplying practices and procedures, people, organizations, technologies, and funding rationales. In the context of the US-Mexico border, discourses of intrusion have been shaped through settler colonial and imperial fantasies that have intensified over time. These discourses...

... of racist violence; historical and present intersections of anti-Blackness and anti-Chinese sentiment; Indigenous migrations framed through the stories of Los Angeles's Indian Alley; diasporic models of belonging through an artistic navigation of the Middle Passage; the US-Mexico border as a generative site...

... Chapter 4 reveals that criminality is not ascribed on migrants only upon reaching the US-Mexico border. From the US making of transnational gangs, to the increase of mass incarceration in the region, and a wave of mysterious prison fires that are burning inmates alive, Central American artists...

... of mobile Mexican dj sound systems, or sonidos, operating on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border. Sonidos use the dj mix as a form of musical communication and community that both moves between the United States and Mexico and plays a role in shaping cross-border migrant politics and activism. Kun explores...

... case studies of social justice campaigns across the US-Mexico border, this chapter explores the mechanisms by which networks of protection for Indigenous women and girls can be built simultaneously at grassroots and global levels. Ultimately, these networks strengthen both international...

... of industrial capitalism as a new form of conquest throughout the past century and the present at the US-Mexico border. Alejandro Lugo’s examination of the region reveals relational conceptions of class and changing conceptions of culture from “shared cultural patterns” to “fragmented cultural borderlands...

... of violence, which have led to the mass displacement of Central Americans and the rise of asylum seekers at the US-Mexico border. The book also reveals a correlation between visual coloniality and the world's refugees, who are often the descendants of cultures targeted with colonial plunder. Visual...

... Eithne Luibhéid’s “Looking Like a Lesbian” exemplifies how border crossings at US-Mexico ports of entry consolidate heteronormative identities. Using a Foucauldian framework, Luibhéid examines how notions of gender and sexuality came to shape both immigration policy and practices by officials...

... Chapter 4 introduces the notion of carnalities in a photographic context connected to the crossing of the Mexico-US border. Photographs showing objects found near the remains of migrants who perished in the desert are read as carnal and become archives of feeling. Listening to photographs...

... “Chapter 4: Sovereignty Claims over the Borderlands” addresses the tensions between the image of smooth transborder collaboration put forward by inSITE in its early iterations and the inherent conflicts shaping life at the US/Mexico borderlands for a majority of regional residents...