Migrant Imaginaries : Latino Cultural Politics in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands / Alicia Schmidt Camacho.
2008
F787 .S36 2008
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Migrant Imaginaries : Latino Cultural Politics in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands / Alicia Schmidt Camacho.
ISBN
9780814790076
Published
New York, NY : New York University Press, [2008]
Copyright
©2008
Language
English
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In English.
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1 online resource
Item Number
10.18574/nyu/9780814790076.001.0001 doi
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F787 .S36 2008
Dewey Decimal Classification
304.8/7210730904 304.87210730904
Summary
Winner of the 2009 Lora Romero First Book Prize from the American Studies Association2009 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleMigrant 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 engagement with theoretical inquiries, she addresses how struggles for racial and gender equity, cross-border unity, and economic justice have defined the Mexican presence in the United States since 1910.Schmidt Camacho covers a range of archives and sources, including migrant testimonials and songs, Amrico Parede's last published novel, The Shadow, the film Salt of the Earth, the foundational manifestos of El Movimiento, Richard Rodriguez's memoirs, narratives by Marisela Norte and Rosario Sanmiguel, and testimonios of Mexican women workers and human rights activists, as well as significant ethnographic research. Throughout, she demonstrates how Mexicans and Mexican Americans imagined their communal ties across the border, and used those bonds to contest their noncitizen status. Migrant Imaginaries places migrants at the center of the hemisphere's most pressing concerns, contending that border crossers have long been vital to social change.
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Nation of Nations ; 12
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Table of Contents
Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgments
A Note on Language
Introduction
Part I. Border Crossers in Mexican American Cultural Politics
Chapter 1. These People Are Not Aliens
Chapter 2. Migrant Modernisms
Chapter 3. No Constitution for Us
Chapter 4. Bordered Civil Rights
Chapter 5. Tracking the New Migrants
Part II. Border Crossings
Chapter 6. Narrative Acts
Chapter 7. Migrant Melancholia
Afterword
Notes
Index
About the Author
Contents
Acknowledgments
A Note on Language
Introduction
Part I. Border Crossers in Mexican American Cultural Politics
Chapter 1. These People Are Not Aliens
Chapter 2. Migrant Modernisms
Chapter 3. No Constitution for Us
Chapter 4. Bordered Civil Rights
Chapter 5. Tracking the New Migrants
Part II. Border Crossings
Chapter 6. Narrative Acts
Chapter 7. Migrant Melancholia
Afterword
Notes
Index
About the Author