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Border Rhetorics is a collection of essays that undertakes a wide-ranging examination of the US-Mexico border as it functions in the rhetorical production of civic unity in the United States. A "border" is a powerful and versatile concept, variously invoked as the delineation of geographical territories, as a judicial marker of citizenship, and as an ideological trope for defining inclusion and exclusion. It has implications for both the empowerment and subjugation of any given populace. Both real and imagined, the border separates a zone of physical and symbolic exchange

Introduction: The crisis of community in a globalized world -- The crafting of a new global community -- Framing humanitarian action : Médecins sans frontières/Doctors Without Borders -- Mobilizing global rhetorical culture : the international campaign to ban landmines -- Conclusion: Taking community seriously

Border Rhetorics is a collection of essays that undertakes a wide-ranging examination of the US-Mexico border as it functions in the rhetorical production of civic unity in the United States. A "border" is a powerful and versatile concept, variously invoked as the delineation of geographical territories, as a judicial marker of citizenship, and as an ideological trope for defining inclusion and exclusion. It has implications for both the empowerment and subjugation of any given populace. Both real and imagined, the border separates a zone of physical and symbolic exchange whose geographical, political, economic, and cultural interactions bear profoundly on popular understandings and experiences of citizenship and identity. The border's rhetorical significance is nowhere more apparent, nor its effects more concentrated, than on the frontier between the United States and Mexico. Often understood as an unruly boundary in dire need of containment from the ravages of criminals, illegal aliens, and other undesirable threats to the national body, this geopolitical locus exemplifies how normative constructions of "proper"; border relations reinforce definitions of US citizenship, which in turn can lead to anxiety, unrest, and violence centered around the struggle to define what it means to be a member of a national political community. Contributors Bernadette Marie Calafell / Karma R. Chávez / Josue David Cisneros / D. Robert DeChaine / Anne Teresa Demo / Lisa A. Flores / Dustin Bradley Goltz / Marouf Hasian Jr. / Michelle A. Holling / Julia R. Johnson / Zach Juatus / Diane M. Keeling / John Louis Lucaites / George F. McHendry Jr. / Toby Miller / Kent A. Ono / Brian L. Ott / Kimberlee Pérez / Mary Ann Villarreal.

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part 1 activism and public campaigns -- 1 Facing Ghosts, God, and Nature: Affect, Naturalization, and the "No Más Cruces" Border Campaign -- 2 Faithful Sovereignty: Denationalizing Immigration Policy in the 2003 Pastoral Letter on Migration -- 3 Protecting LGBT Migrants: Th e Rhetoric of Identity and the Expansion of the Prison- Industrial Complex -- Part 2 identity struggles and DREAMers -- 4 Dropping the "I- Word": A Critical Examination of Contemporary Immigration Labels -- 5 "American" Children's Success and Global Competitiveness: Th e Racial Paradox of Bilingualism as Cultural Capital -- 6 Documenting Dreams: A Rhetorical Performance of Inclusive Citizenship and Collaborative Expertise -- Part 3 (hi)stories of exclusion -- 7 Constituting Enemies Through Fear: The Rhetoric of Exclusionary Nationalism in the Control of "Un- American" Immigrant Populations -- 8 Defining the Right Sort of Immigrant: Theodore Roosevelt and American Character -- 9 Immigration as Histories of Mob- ility: Personal Storytelling in the Where Are You From? Project -- Part 4 affect and media imagery -- 10 Battling Identity Warfare on the Imagined US/México Border: Performing Migrant Alien in Independence Day and Battle: Los Angeles -- 11 Affect, Emotion, and Immigration Rhetoric, or What Happens When a Minuteman Lives with Unauthorized Immigrants? -- Afterword: Tracking the "Shifting Borders" of Identity and Otherness; Productive Complications and Ethico- Political Commitments -- About the Contributors -- Index