| Review | Journal of Social History, 40.3

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Working the Boundaries: Race, Space, and Mexican "Illegality" in Mexican Chicago. By Nicholas De Genova (Durham: Duke University Press, 2005. xvi plus 329 pp.).
This arresting work of anthropology, American studies and ethnic studies will be of great interest to historians of labor, of race, of transnationalism and empire, of cities and of migration. Based on an impressive command of the history of Mexicans and of spatialized inequality in Chicago, Working the Boundaries repeatedly "jumps scales," as recent innovators in geography have put it, from rural Mexico, to Illinois, to United States immigration policy to show both how oppressively momentous and how fictive the border is.	1
Steeped in theory, and particularly keen in its readings of postcolonial and anti-imperialist scholarship, Marxism, critical studies of whiteness, Chicana feminism, the dialogical methodologies of educational theorist Paulo Freire, and the work of Henri Lefebvre on everyday life and the production of space, the book is avowedly interested in large ideas, and even in raising questions that it can better pose than answer. But at the same time, it is rooted in telling and textured details drawn from extended ethnographic field work, is direct in making even its most complex arguments, and is committed to full disclosure of its radical political vision.	. . .

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