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Fragmented Lives, Assembled Parts: Culture, Capitalism, and Conquest at the U.S.Mexico Border,New
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Southwest Book Award, Border Regional Library Association, 2008Association of Latina and Latino Anthropologists Book Award, 2009Established in 1659 as Misin de Nuestra Seora de Guadalupe de los Mansos del Paso del Norte, Ciudad Jurez is the oldest colonial settlement on the U.S.Mexico borderand one of the largest industrialized border cities in the world. Since the days of its founding, Jurez has been marked by different forms of conquest and the quest for wealth as an elaborate matrix of gender, class, and ethnic hierarchies struggled for dominance. Juxtaposing the early Spanish invasions of the region with the arrival of latetwentiethcentury industrial 'conquistadors,' Fragmented Lives, Assembled Parts documents the consequences of imperial history through indepth ethnographic studies of workingclass factory life.By comparing the social and human consequences of recent globalism with the region's pioneer era, Alejandro Lugo demonstrates the ways in which class mobilization is itself constantly being 'unmade' at both the international and personal levels for border workers. Both an inside account of maquiladora practices and a rich social history, this is an interdisciplinary survey of the legacies, tropes, economic systems, and genderbased inequalities reflected in a unique cultural landscape. Through a framework of theoretical conceptualizations applied to a range of facetsfrom multiracial 'mestizo' populations to the notions of border 'crossings' and 'inspections,' as well as the recent brutal killings of workingclass women in Ciudad JurezFragmented Lives, Assembled Parts provides a critical understanding of the effect of transnational corporations on contemporary Mexico, calling for official recognition of the desperate need for improved working and living conditions within this community.
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