Umfang:
Online-Ressource (xiii, 375 p)
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ill
Ausgabe:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
144162290X
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9781441622907
Serie:
Nation of newcomers
Inhalt:
Winner of the 2009 Lora Romero First Book Prize from the American Studies Association 2009 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Migrant Imaginaries explores the transnational movements of Mexican migrants in pursuit of labor and civil rights in the United States from the 1920s onward. Working through key historical moments such as the 1930s, the Chicano Movement, and contemporary globalization and neoliberalism, Alicia Schmidt Camacho examines the relationship between ethnic Mexican expressive culture and the practices sustaining migrant social movements. Combining sustained historical engagem
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 319-360) and index
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1. These people are not aliens : transborder solidarity in the shadow of deportation2. Migrant modernisms : racialized development under the Bracero program -- 3. No constitution for us : class racism and cold war unionism -- 4. Bordered civil rights : migrants, feminism, and the radical imagination in el movimento Chicano -- 5. Tracking the new migrants : Richard Rodriguez and liberal retrenchment -- 6. Narrative acts : fronteriza stories of labor and subjectivity -- 7. Migrant melancholia : emergent narratives of the border crossing -- Afterword : A través del la línea/Across the line.
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Print version Migrant imaginaries
Sprache:
Englisch
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