2 Introduction caught in imperial desires. We also assume that 'history'is not only linear; and
that 'historical awards' are only endowed to those who get there first, in the uni-linear …

A founder of US-Mexico border studies, José David Saldívar is a leading figure in efforts to
expand the scope of American studies. In Trans-Americanity, he advances that critical …

This comparative essay on Chicano/a and South Asian narratives has a somewhat
sweeping character. It is a preliminary attempt to link pensamiento fronterizo (border …

This chapter has been stimulated by my ethnographic work on the US-Mexico border. My
immediate problem in relation to this work is how to represent the social and cultural forms of …

My intent is to investigate the consequences for intellectual and political work (or, to put this
another way, for the politics of intellectual work) of the theory and the condition of …

Durante el último congreso de LASA (Guadalajara 1997), en varios paneles, en los pasillos
y en el café, se puso en marcha un debate complejo, de varias caras. Estudios culturales …

A" border" is always and only secured by a border patrol. Where Scott Michaelsen works, in
El Paso, Texas, on the US-Mexico border, one sees the most clearly virulent form of border …

I first need to explain, however, why one should be interested in such a discussion anyway.
Seized as we are by the great themes of the moment-the foreign debt and the economic …

Este artículo presenta y examina críticamente el trabajo de un grupo de investigadores en
Latinoamérica y en los Estados Unidos que están elaborando una novedosa interpretación …

El presente artículo da cuenta de las críticas que han surgido desde algunos países
latinoamericanos al grupo Modernidad/Colonialidad, la expresión más visible de una …