TY - BOOK AU - Lugo,Alejandro ED - ebrary, Inc. TI - Fragmented lives, assembled parts: culture, capitalism, and conquest at the U.S.-Mexico border AV - HD8039.O332 M61584 2008eb U1 - 331.700972/16 22 PY - 2008/// CY - Austin PB - University of Texas Press KW - Offshore assembly industry KW - Employees KW - Mexico KW - Ciudad Juarez KW - Ciudad Ju©Łrez (Mexico) KW - Social conditions KW - Electronic books KW - local N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-301) and index; Sixteenth-century conquests (1521-1598) and their postcolonial border legacies -- The invention of borderlands geography : what do Aztlán and Tenochtitlán have to do with Ciudad Juárez/Paso del Norte? -- The problem of color in Mexico and on the U.S.-Mexico border : precolonial, colonial, and postcolonial subjectivities -- Culture, class, and gender in late twentieth-century Ciudad Juárez -- Maquiladoras, gender, and culture change -- The political economy of tropes, culture, and masculinity inside an electronics factory -- Border inspections : inspecting the working-class life of maquiladora workers on the U.S-Mexico border -- Culture, class, and union politics : the daily struggle for chairs inside a sewing factory in the larger context of the working day -- Women, men, and "gender" in feminist anthropology : lessons from northern Mexico's maquiladoras -- Alternating imaginings -- Reimagining culture and power against late industrial capitalism and other forms of conquest through border theory and analysis; Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2009; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries UR - http://ezproxy.taylors.edu.my/login?url=http://site.ebrary.com/lib/taylorscollege/Doc?id=10273756 ER -