Citizenship and Identity on the US-Mexico Frontier
Edited by D. Robert DeChaine
Contributions by Bernadette Marie Calafell, Karma R. Chávez, Josue David Cisneros, Anne Teresa Demo, Lisa A. Flores, Dustin Bradley Goltz, Marouf Hasian, Michelle A. Holling, Julia R. Johnson, Zach Justus, Diane M. Keeling, George F. McHendry, Toby Miller, Kent A. Ono, Brian L. Ott, Kimberlee Pérez, and Mary Ann Villarreal
Introduction by D. Robert DeChaine
Afterword by John Louis Lucaites
Price:
CA$43.95
ISBN: 9780817357160
Pub Date: August 2012
Imprint: University of Alabama Press
Undertakes a wide-ranging examination of the US-Mexico border as it functions in the rhetorical production of civic unity in the United States
by Aimee Carrillo Rowe, Sheena Malhotra, and Kimberlee Pérez
Price:
CA$38.99
ISBN: 9780816689392
Pub Date: December 2013
Imprint: University of Minnesota Press
Drawing from interviews with agents, trainers, managers, and CEOs at call centers in Bangalore and Mumbai, Answer the Call shows that workers in call centers are not quite in India or America but rather in a state of "virtual migration." Encouraged to steep themselves in American culture, the agents come to internalize and perform Americanness for Americans-and each other.
