| Description |
1 online resource (328 pages, 20 unnumbered pages of photographs) : map |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
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text file |
| Note |
"Published in association with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Agriculture, state expectations, and the configuration of citizenship -- Narrating class and nation: agribusiness and the construction of grower narratives -- Manhood, the lure of migration, and contestations of the modern -- Rites of movement, technologies of power: making migrants modern from home to the border -- With hunched back and on bended knee: race, work, and the modern north of the border -- Strikes against solidarity: containing domestic farmworkers' agency -- Border of belonging, border of foreignness: patriarchy, the modern, and making transnational Mexicanness -- Tipping the negotiating hand: state-to-state struggle and the impact of migrant agency. |
| Summary |
At the beginning of World War II, the United States and Mexico launched the bracero program, a series of labor agreements that brought Mexican men to work temporarily in U.S. agricultural fields. In "Braceros", historian Deborah Cohen asks why these migrants provoked so much concern and anxiety in the United States and what the Mexican government expected to gain in participating in the program. Cohen creatively links the often unconnected themes of exploitation, development, the rise of consumer cultures, and gendered class and race formation to show why those with connections beyond the nation have historically provoked suspicion, anxiety, and retaliatory political policies. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Migrant agricultural laborers -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Migrant agricultural laborers. |
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United States. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
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Mexicans -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Mexicans. |
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Migrant labor -- Government policy -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Migrant labor -- Government policy. |
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Migrant labor. |
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Transnationalism.
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Transnationalism. |
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United States -- Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects.
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Emigration and immigration. |
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Social aspects. |
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Mexico -- Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects.
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Mexico. |
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United States -- Foreign economic relations -- Mexico.
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International economic relations. |
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Mexico -- Foreign economic relations -- United States.
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| Chronological Term |
1900 - 1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Cohen, Deborah, Ph. D. Braceros. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2010 9780807833599 (DLC) 2010029264 (OCoLC)607975611 |
| ISBN |
9780807899670 electronic book |
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0807899674 electronic book |
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9781469603391 electronic book |
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146960339X electronic book |
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9780807833599 cloth alkaline paper |
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0807833592 cloth alkaline paper |
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