Tijuana Dreaming

Josh Kun is a professor in the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism and the Department of American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California. He is the author of Audiotopia: Music, Race, and America and coeditor of Sound Clash: Listening to American Studies.Fiamma Montezemolo is an anthropologist and artist currently teaching in the Department of Art Practice at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of Faceless: Ethnicity and Gender in the Zapatista Movement and a co-author of Here Is Tijuana! Iain Chambers teaches cultural and postcolonial studies at the Orientale University of Naples. He is the author, most recently, of Mediterranean Crossings: The Politics of an Interrupted Modernity, also published by Duke University Press.

"Tijuana Dreaming is important and inspirational: a study of the imaginary of a city that constantly reinvents itself. By documenting the artistic and social expressions of this border city, Josh Kun and Fiamma Montezemolo reveal what motivates us and what makes us proud as tijuanenses: living in a city so full of inspiration and possibility."-RamÓn Amezcua, aka Bostich, of Nortec Collective "This is an exciting and timely collection of cultural criticism and creative work. The selections are inspired, alert to a wide spectrum of practices and debates. Personal narratives, urban development, art, literature, photography, and architecture are just some of the matters covered in this rich and thought-provoking conversation, and the foreword by Iain Chambers provides the perfect framing device, linking Tijuana to global studies and critical inquiry."-Roberto Tejada, author of National Camera: Photography and Mexico's Image Environment “An eclectic anthology of critical cultural studies, Tijuana Dreaming brings to life the tumultuous history of the border town’s shifting identity: the Prohibition-era booze-and-brothel magnet adjacent to San Diego, the late-twentieth-century booming free-trade zone of globalized assembly plants, and, most recently, the bloody site of today’s horrific drug-war violence. . . . [T]he volume’s overall high quality makes for a stimulating . . . read.” - Richard Feinberg (Foreign Affairs) “Tijuana Dreaming is a significant anthology of recent writings on this city from the perspective of art, literature, architecture, music, and film. It is one of the most concentrated studies of the city to date. . . . The anthology also addresses a void in the existing literature on Tijuana through English translations of several texts by prominent Mexican writers, filling out gaps in the border-studies research that circulates in Anglo-American contexts.” - Lee Rodney (Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies) “This volume is an enriching and fasci­nating contribution to the study of Tijuana and the Mexico-US borderland, and would be of interest to any scholar with an interest in the culture and history of the region. It is a dynamic, engaging and timely collection of works which address key questions of identity and identification against the backdrop of cultural and sociohistorical processes.” - Julia Banwell (Bulletin of Hispanic Studies)

• Acknowledgments viiForeword. A Line in the Sand / Iain Chambers ixIntroduction. The Factory of Dreams / Josh Kun and Fiamma Montzemolo 11. Welcome Tu Tijuana / Roberto Castillo 212. Snapshots from and about a City Named Tijuana / Humberto FÉlix Berumen 253. Tijuanologies: An Urban Essay / Heriberto YÉpez 474. Globalization in Tijuana Maquiladoras: Using Historical Antecedents and Migration to Test Globalization Models / Kathryn Kopinak 715. (Conversation with) NÉstor GarcÍa Canclini, on How Tijuana Ceased to Be the Laboratory of Postmodernity / Fiamma Montezemolo 946. Postcards from the Border: In Tijuana, RevoluciÓn Is an Avenue / Santiago Vaquera-VÁsquez 1177. Illicit Acts of Urbanism / RenÉ Peralto 1368. The Transborder Metropolis in Question: The Case of Tijuana and San Diego / Tito AlegrÍa 1489. Practices of Encroachment: Urban Waste Moves Southbound; Illegal Zoning Seeps into North / Teddy Cruz 17510. Community of Struggle: Gender, Violence, and Resistance on the U.S.-Mexico Border / Michelle TÉllez 19011. La CanciÓn de Tijuana: The Song of Tijuana / Guillermo Fadanelli 21212. ¿Todos somos ciudadanos?: Artistic Production and Agency in Tijuana / LucÍa SanromÁn 21913. Bioethnograhy of an Artist: Ingrid HernÁndez / Fiamma Montezemolo 24014. Borderline Archaeology / Jesse Lerner 26415. Redefining Sodom: A Latter-Day Vision of Tijuana / Jennifer Insley-Pruitt 27716. Crossfader Playlist / Rafa Saavedra 30017. Counterculture, Rockers, Punks, New Romantics, and Mods in Tijuana / Ejival 32918. Borderline Ghosts: From Touch of Evil to Maquilapolis: City of Factories / Tarek Elhaik 33919. The Kidnapped City / Josh Kun 35520. The Line / Luis Humberto Crosthwaite 370Contributors 375Index 381