Turf Wars

List of Figures viii

Acknowledgments ix

Part I: The Ethnography 1

1. Sketching the Landscape 3

2. Mt. Pleasant History and Social Geography 34

3. The Moral Geography of Mt. Pleasant 88

4. The Politics of Filth 137

5. La Loca vs. the Cultural Vampires 170

6. Keeping it in the Family 202

7. Home Ties, Winds of Change 247

Part II: The Making of Turf Wars 267

8. Theorizing Discourse 269

9. Geography a...