Postborder City: Cultural Spaces of Bajalta California / Edition 1

by Michael Dear, Gustavo Leclerc

Overview

The postborder metropolis of Bajalta California stretches from Los Angeles in the north to Tijuana and Mexicali in the south. Immigrants from all over the globe flock to Southern California, while corporations are drawn to the low wage industry of the Mexican border towns, echoing developments in other rapid growth areas such as Phoenix, El Paso, and San Antonio. This incredibly diverse, transnational megacity is giving birth to new cultural and artistic forms as it rapidly evolves into something unique in the world. Postborder City is a genuinely interdisciplinary investigation of the hybrid culture on both sides of the increasingly fluid U. S.-Mexico border, spanning the disciplines of art and art history, urban planning, geography, Latina/o studies, and American studies.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415944205
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	08/21/2003
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	340
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Michael Dear is Professor of Geography and Director of the Southern California Studies Center at USC.

Gustavo LeClerc is partner and founding member of ADOBE LA (Artists, Architects and Designers Opening the Border Edge of Los Angeles) since 1992.

Table of Contents

Foreward - Selma Holo Introduction - Carlos Monsivais Part One: Regional Groundedness 1. The Postborder Condition - Michael Dear and Gustavo LeClerc Folio: Gallery of Postborder Artworks 2. Peopling Southern California - Phoebe Kropp and Michael Dear 3. Peopling Baja California - Hector Manuel Lucero Part Two: Regional Imaginations 4. Forty Years of Art in the San Diego-Tijuana Region - Jo-Anne Berelowitz 5. Border Representations in Film and Cultural Discourses - Norma Iglesias 6. Border Metropolis - Lawrence Herzog Part Three: Regional Hybridities 7. Where am I at Home - Richard Candida Smith 8. Borders/Hybrids - David Palumbo-Liu 9. Hybrid Cultures in Postborder Latin America - Nestor Garcia Canclini