Introduction legal borderlands: Law and the construction of American borders

American Quarterly

Volumn 57, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 593-610

  Dudziak, Mary L ^a   Volpp, Leti ^a  

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EID: 36849028316     PISSN: 00030678     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/aq.2005.0045     Document Type: Editorial

References (32)

1. For works that examine American studies in a global or "postnational" context, see Shelley Fisher Fishkin, "Crossroads of Cultures: The Transnational Turn in American Studies - Presidential Address to the American Studies Association, November 12, 2004," American Quarterly 57.1 (March 2005): 17-58
2. Amy Kaplan, "Violent Belongings and the Question of Empire Today - Presidential Address to the American Studies Association, October 17, 2003," American Quarterly 56.1 (March 2004): 1-18
3. John Carlos Rowe, ed., Post-Nationalist American Studies (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000)
4. Donald E. Pease and Robyn Wiegman, eds., The Futures of American Studies (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2002)
5. One example of work that brings legal studies and cultural borderland analysis together is Carl Gutierrez-Jones, Rethinking the Borderlands: Between Chicano Culture and Legal Discourse (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995)
6. For other works engaging the U.S.-Mexico border and the border region, see José David Saldívar, Border Matters: Remapping American Cultural Studies (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997)
7. David G. Gutiérrez, Walls and Mirrors: Mexican Americans, Mexican Immigrants, and the Politics of Ethnicity (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995)
8. Neil Foley, The White Scourge: Mexicans, Blacks, and Poor Whites in Texas Cotton Culture (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998)
9. Sonia Saldívar-Hull, "Introduction to the Second Edition," Anzaldúa, Borderlands/La Frontera, 2
10. See Michael J. Klarman, From Jim Crow to Civil Rights: The Supreme Court and the Struggle for Racial Equality (New York: Oxford University Press, 2004)
11. William E. Nelson, The Legalist Reformation: Law, Politics, and Ideology in New York, 1920-1980 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001)
12. Mae Ngai, Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2004)
13. Akhil Gupta and James Ferguson, "Beyond 'Culture': Space, Identity, and the Politics of Difference," in Culture, Power, Place: Explorations in Critical Anthropology, ed. Akhil Gupta and James Ferguson (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1997), 33-51
14. Susan Bibler Coutin, "Illegality, Borderlands, and the Space of Nonexistence," in Globalization Under Construction: Governmentality, Law and Identity, ed. Richard Warren Perry and Bill Maurer (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2003), 171-202
15. and Mehnaaz Momen, "Are You a Citizen? Insights from Borderlands," Citizenship Studies 9 (2005): 323-34
16. Sarat, "At the Boundaries of Law," this issue. See also Austin Sarat, Lawrence Douglas, and Martha Merrill Umphrey, eds., The Limits of Law (Stanford, Calif: Stanford University Press, 2005)
17. See Giorgio Agamben, Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life, trans. Daniel Heller-Roazen (Stanford, Calif: Stanford University Press, 1998)
18. Carl Schmitt, Political Theology: Four Chapters on the Concept of Sovereignty, trans. George Schwab (1922; Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1985)
19. On the relationship between the use of exceptional measures and the rule of law, see Nasser Hussain, The Jurisprudence of Emergency: Colonialism and the Rule of Law (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2003)
20. On the American national security justification for the state of exception, see Kim Lane Scheppele, "Law in a Time of Emergency: States of Exception and the Temptations of 9/11," University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law 6 (2004): 1001-83
21. On the suppression of civil liberties, see Ellen Schrecker, Many Are the Crimes: McCarthyism in America (Boston: Little, Brown, 1998)
22. Peter Irons, Justice at War (New York: Oxford University Press, 1983)
23. Mehnaaz Momen, "Are You a Citizen?"
24. Stuart A. Scheingold, The Politics of Rights: Lawyers, Public Policy, and Political Change, 2nd ed. (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2004)
25. Sarat quotes Andrew Norris, "Introduction: Giorgio Agamben and the Politics of the Living Dead," in Politics, Metaphysics, and Death: Essays on Giorgio Agamben's Homo Sacer, unpublished ms., 2003, 15
26. There is, of course, much scholarship critically examining the tension between American ideology and practices. See Rogers Smith, Civic Ideals: Conflicting Visions of Citizenship in U.S. History (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1999)
27. Desmond King, The Liberty of Strangers: Making the American Nation (New York: Oxford University Press, 2004)
28. Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism (London: Andre Deutsch, 1986), 295-296
29. For a discussion of the Insular Cases, see Christina Duffy Burnett, "Appendix: A Note on the Insular Cases," in Foreign in a Domestic Sense: Puerto Rico, American Expansion, and the Constitution, ed. Christina Duffy Burnett and Burke Marshall (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2001)
30. Carruthers's "impossible subjects" is a reference to Ngai, Impossible Subjects
31. See Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, Empire (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2000)
32. John M. Broder, "With Congress's Blessing, a Border Fence May Finally Push Through to the Sea," New York Times, July 4, 2005, A8