Cover
Title page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Foreword by Leo R. Chavez
Introduction: Terror, Trauma, and Resistance in the U.S./México Borderlands / Arturo J. Aldama and Jessica Ordaz
PART I. XENOPHOBIA, ABJECTION, AND STATE VIOLENCE
1. “They’re Bringing Drugs!”: Reflections on Movement and Migration, the War on Drugs, and the Opioid Crisis in Trump’s America / Rebecca Avalos
2. Separating and Caging Immigrant Families: Case Studies in South Texas from the Postwar Era Through Trump’s Reign of Terror / Jennifer Cullison
3. Human Trafficking and the Politics of State Violence Through Operation Lone Star / Antonio Vásquez
4. The Uterus Collectors: The Lineage of Hemispheric Medical Abuse and Experimentation in the United States and Guatemala / Alexandria Herrera
5. Reflections on Right-Wing Leadership in the United States: From LAPD Chief William Parker to Donald Trump / Roberto A. Mónico
6. Refugees and Human Rights Law During the Trump Administration / Jasmin Lilian Diab
PART II. PERFORMING THE BORDERLANDS: VISUAL ARTS, MUSIC, DANCE, AND COMMUNITY RESISTANCE(S)
7. No Están Solxs: Mourning Migrant Suffering and Death Through Commemorative Art at the U.S.///Mexico Border / Alexis N. Meza and Leslie Quintanilla
8. “American” Incarceration: Dances That Critique Confinement and Contribute to Prison Abolitionist Possibilities / Tria Blu Wakpa
9. Museum at the Border / Eliseo Ortiz
10. Canto y Oración in Juan Gabriel’s “Amor Eterno”: A Latin@/x Refusal to Forget Lives Lost to State-Sanctioned Violence / Kiara Padilla
PART III. THE MEDIA AND POPULAR CULTURE
11. Americana White Plight: Bolsotrumpism and the Linear Desire for Westernness / Renata Carvalho Barreto
12. Trump’s Hermeneutics of the Ass: Anal Theory, Gaping Holes, and Backdoor Approaches to the U.S.-Mexico Border / Sergio A. Macías
13. The Dehumanizing Framing of Central American and Mexican Children and Youth Seeking Refuge in the United States / Maria Vargas and Heidy Sarabia
14. Migrant Children and the Carceral State in the Comic Book Home / José Enrique Navarro
15. I’m the Shooter / J-M Rivera
PART IV. RESISTANCE AND ABOLITIONIST DREAMS
16. Sexual Terror and the Prison/Border Archive: Theorizing a Feminist Abolition Praxis of Migrant Detention / Cinthya Martinez
17. Trump’s Bellicose Border Wall and the Hateful Rhetoric and Violence It Inspires in the Paso del Norte Region / Cynthia Bejarano and Diana J. López
18. White Supremacy and Migrant Advocacy at the U.S.-Mexico Border / Allison Glover
19. “Free Them All”: A Conversation on Trans Abolitionist Visions with Jordan Garcia / Nishant Upadhyay
20. Resistance Archiving: Reflections on the IMM Print Detention Stories Project / Tina Shull and Jamila Hammami
Afterword by Karma R. Chávez
Contributors
Index