Postborder City: Cultural Spaces of Bajalta California

by Michael J. Dear (Editor)

The postborder metropolis of Bajalta California stretches from Los Angeles in the north to Tijuana and Mexicali in the south. Immigrants from all over the globe flock to Southern California, while corporations are drawn to the low wage industry of the Mexican border towns, echoing developments in other rapid growth areas such as Phoenix, El Paso, and San Antonio. This incredibly diverse, transnational megacity is giving birth to new cultural and artistic forms as it rapidly evolves into something unique in the world. Postborder City is a genuinely interdisciplinary investigation of the hybrid culture on both sides of the increasingly fluid U. S.-Mexico border, spanning the disciplines of art and art history, urban planning, geography, Latina/o studies, and American studies.

340 pages, Paperback

First published April 1, 2003

Reviews

[Caz Margenau · Rating 4 out of 5]

Travel the globe and you will not find a more intriguing cultural city than Tijuana. This collection of essays is the best I've found about the complexities that is Tijuana. I love the term hybrid to describe the city. Tijuana is the city of the future, an unnatural hybrid born of high speed travel and communication. It's not cheap bars and trinkets, it's a phenomenal city.