- All's Well That Ends Well
- Antony and Cleopatra
- As You Like It
- The Comedy of Errors
- Coriolanus
- Cymbeline
- Hamlet
- Henry IV, Part 1
- Henry IV, Part 2
- Henry V
- Henry VI, Part 1
- Henry VI, Part 2
- Henry VI, Part 3
- Henry VIII
- Julius Caesar
- King John
- King Lear
- Love's Labor's Lost
- A Lover's Complaint
- Macbeth
- Measure for Measure
- The Merchant of Venice
- The Merry Wives of Windsor
- A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Much Ado About Nothing
- Othello
- Pericles
- The Rape of Lucrece
- Richard II
- Richard III
- Romeo and Juliet
- Shakespeare's Sonnets
- The Taming of the Shrew
- The Tempest
- Timon of Athens
- Titus Andronicus
- Troilus and Cressida
- Twelfth Night
- The Two Gentlemen of Verona
- Venus and Adonis
- The Winter's Tale
Coming to the US as migrant agricultural workers, Mexicans faced severe exploitation and discrimination. During the Great Depression, anti-Mexican sentiment and economic pressures led to the development of repatriation programs, which meant that many Mexicans ended up going back to their homeland. In this quotation, Takaki describes how the US-Mexico border was perceived as an arbitrary, “imaginary” construction by many Mexican immigrants in the US. In many cases, this awareness would have stemmed from the fact that the land where these immigrants lived, or from which their ancestors came, was now considered the US where it had once been Mexico.
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