Braceros : Migrant Citizens and Transnational Subjects in the Postwar United States and Mexico.

By: Cohen, DeborahMaterial type: TextTextPublisher: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2011Copyright date: ©2011Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (359 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780807899670Subject(s): Mexicans -- United States -- History -- 20th century | Mexico -- Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects | Migrant agricultural laborers -- United States -- History -- 20th century | Migrant labor -- Government policy -- United States -- History -- 20th century | Transnationalism | United States -- Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects | United States -- Foreign economic relations -- MexicoGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Braceros : Migrant Citizens and Transnational Subjects in the Postwar United States and MexicoDDC classification: 331.5/44097309045 LOC classification: HD1525 -- .C62 2011ebOnline resources: Click to View
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part I: Producing Transnational Subjects -- 1 Agriculture, State Expectations, and the Configuration of Citizenship -- 2 Narrating Class and Nation: Agribusiness and the Construction of Grower Narratives -- 3 Manhood, the Lure of Migration, and Contestations of the Modern -- Part II: Bracero Agency and Emergent Subjectivities -- 4 Rites of Movement, Technologies of Power: Making Migrants Modern from Home to the Border -- 5 With Hunched Back and on Bended Knee: Race, Work, and the Modern North of the Border -- 6 Strikes against Solidarity: Containing Domestic Farmworkers' Agency -- 7 Border of Belonging, Border of Foreignness: Patriarchy, the Modern, and Making Transnational Mexicanness -- Part III: The Convergence of Elite Alliances -- 8 Tipping the Negotiating Hand: State-to-State Struggle and the Impact of Migrant Agency -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgments/Agradecimientos -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z -- A section of photographs.
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Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part I: Producing Transnational Subjects -- 1 Agriculture, State Expectations, and the Configuration of Citizenship -- 2 Narrating Class and Nation: Agribusiness and the Construction of Grower Narratives -- 3 Manhood, the Lure of Migration, and Contestations of the Modern -- Part II: Bracero Agency and Emergent Subjectivities -- 4 Rites of Movement, Technologies of Power: Making Migrants Modern from Home to the Border -- 5 With Hunched Back and on Bended Knee: Race, Work, and the Modern North of the Border -- 6 Strikes against Solidarity: Containing Domestic Farmworkers' Agency -- 7 Border of Belonging, Border of Foreignness: Patriarchy, the Modern, and Making Transnational Mexicanness -- Part III: The Convergence of Elite Alliances -- 8 Tipping the Negotiating Hand: State-to-State Struggle and the Impact of Migrant Agency -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgments/Agradecimientos -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z -- A section of photographs.

Braceros: Migrant Citizens and Transnational Subjects in the Postwar United States and Mexico.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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