“Walled in and without Home”
Edward. S. Casey and Mary Watkins, Up Against the Wall: Re-Imagining the U.S.-Mexico Border. University of Texas Press, Austin, 2014, 346 pages, $40.20 hardcover, $18.73 softcover. ISBN: 978-0-292-75841-4 (http://utpress.utexas.edu/index.php/books/casupa)
I am writing this text in the shadow of President Obama’s speech, now christened “Come out of the Shadows”, as well as the partisan and exorbitant reaction by Republicans denouncing the President’s plan to “deal responsibly with millions of undocumented immigrants who already live in our country.” In other words, I write about Casey and Watkins’s very timely book, in the shadow of yet another staging of the US’s struggle with its imperial and racial history, on the one hand, and its project and promise to be a beacon of light for the ‘tired, poor, huddled masses yearning to be free’—to paraphrase—on the other hand. This book is a celebration, and invitation to a reaffirmation, of this project and promise. Continue reading Society and Space’s Editorial Board member, Eduardo Mendieta’s review here
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Eduardo Mendieta reviews Casey and Watkins’s Up Against the Wall.
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And here is the second on Ed Casey and Mary Watkin’s recent work on the US-Mexican border (reviewed by Eduardo Mendietta).