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  • Border Optics

    Surveillance Cultures on the US-Mexico Frontier

    by Camilla Fojas ...
    Series series Critical Cultural Communication
    Examines how the US-Mexico border is seen through visual codes of surveillanceWhen Donald Trump promised to “build a wall” on the U.S.-Mexico border, both supporters and opponents visualized a snaking barrier of concrete cleaving through nearly two thousand miles of arid desert. Though only 4 percent of the US population lives in proximity to the border, imagining what the wall would look like ... Read more

    $23.09 CAD

  • Migrant Labor and Border Securities in Pop Culture

    by Camilla Fojas ...
    Series series Routledge Focus on Latina/o Popular Culture
    Migrant Labor and Border Securities in Pop Culture explores the conditions for migrant domestic, agricultural, and factory workers as that of continual crisis and examines how the borderlands are a workshop of neoliberalism. These borderland stories present a future of integrated networks in which the border is not just physical but temporal, separating the present time of crisis and migrant ... Read more

    $46.71 CAD

  • Zombies, Migrants, and Queers

    Race and Crisis Capitalism in Pop Culture

    by Camilla Fojas ...
    The alarm and anxiety unleashed by the Great Recession found fascinating expression across popular culture. Harried survivors negotiated societal collapse in The Walking Dead. Middle-class whites crossed the literal and metaphorical Mexican border on Breaking Bad or coped with a lack of freedom among the marginalized on Orange Is the New Black. Camilla Fojas uses representations of people of color ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Border Bandits

    Hollywood on the Southern Frontier

    by Camilla Fojas ...
    The southern frontier is one of the most emotionally charged zones in the United States, second only to its historical predecessor and partner, the western frontier. Though they span many genres, border films share common themes, trace the mood swings of public policy, and shape our cultural agenda.In this examination, Camilla Fojas studies how major Hollywood films exploit the border between ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • Beyond Ethnicity

    New Politics of Race in Hawai‘i

    by Camilla Fojas, Rudy P. Guevarra, , Jr., Nitasha Tamar Sharma, Maile Arvin, ku‘ualoha ho‘omanawanui, Professor Roderick N. Labrador, Christopher Joseph Lopa, Jonathan Y. Okamura0, Gary Y. Okihiro1, Joakim Peter2, John P. Rosa3, Paul Spickard4, Wayne Chung Tanaka5, Aiko Yamashiro6 ...
    Written by scholars of various disciplines, the essays in this volume dig beneath the veneer of Hawai‘i’s myth as a melting pot paradise to uncover historical and complicated cross-racial dynamics. Race is not the primary paradigm through which Hawai‘i is understood. Instead, ethnic difference is celebrated as a sign of multicultural globalism that designates Hawai‘i as the crossroads of the ... Read more

    $79.99 CAD

  • Islands of Empire

    Pop Culture and U.S. Power

    by Camilla Fojas ...
    Camilla Fojas explores a broad range of popular culture media—film, television, journalism, advertisements, travel writing, and literature—with an eye toward how the United States as an empire imagined its own military and economic projects. Impressive in its scope, Islands of Empire looks to Cuba, Guam, Hawai‘i, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines, asking how popular narratives about these island ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD