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Contents Acknowledgments vii introduction: for Rhetorical Border Studies D. Robert DeChaine 1 i. ConCEPTUAL oRiEnTATionS 1. Borders That Travel: Matters of the figural Border Kent A. Ono 19 2. Bordering as Social Practice: intersectional identifications and Coalitional Possibilities Julia R. Johnson 33 3. Border interventions: The need to Shift from a Rhetoric of Security to a Rhetoric of Militarization Karma R. Chávez 48 ii. HiSToRiCAL ConSEqUEnCES 4. A Dispensational Rhetoric in “The Mexican question in the Southwest” Michelle A. Holling 65 5. Mobilizing for national inclusion: The Discursivity of Whiteness among Texas Mexicans’ Arguments for Desegregation Lisa A. Flores and Mary AnnVillarreal 86 iii. LEGAL ACTS 6. The Attempted Legitimation of the vigilante Civil Border Patrols, the Militarization of the Mexican-US Border, and the Law of Unintended Consequences Marouf Hasian Jr. and George F. McHendry Jr. 103 vi / Contents 7. Shot in the Back: Articulating the ideologies of the Minutemen through a Political Trial Zach Justus 117 iv. PERfoRMATivE AffECTS 8. Looking “illegal”: Affect, Rhetoric, and Performativity in Arizona’s Senate Bill 1070 Josue David Cisneros 133 9. Love, Loss, and immigration: Performative Reverberations between a Great-Grandmother and Great-Granddaughter Bernadette Marie Calafell 151 10. Borders without Bodies: Affect, Proximity, and Utopian imaginaries through “Lines in the Sand” Dustin Bradley Goltz and Kimberlee Pérez 163 v. MEDiA CiRCUiTS 11. Transborder Politics: The Embodied Call of Conscience in Traffic Brian L. Ott and Diane M. Keeling 181 12. Decriminalizing illegal immigration: immigrants’ Rights through the Documentary Lens AnneTeresa Demo 197 13. The Ragpicker-Citizen Toby Miller 213 Afterword: Border optics John Louis Lucaites 227 Suggested Readings 231 Works Cited 235 Contributors 265 index 269 ...

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