Migrant imaginaries [[electronic resource] ] : Latino cultural politics in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands / / Alicia Schmidt Camacho
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| Autore: |
Schmidt Camacho Alicia R
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| Titolo: |
Migrant imaginaries [[electronic resource] ] : Latino cultural politics in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands / / Alicia Schmidt Camacho
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| Pubblicazione: | New York, : New York University Press, c2008 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (388 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 304.8/7210730904 |
| 325 | |
| Soggetto topico: | Mexican Americans - Mexican-American Border Region - Politics and government - 20th century |
| Mexicans - Mexican-American Border Region - Politics and government - 20th century | |
| Soggetto geografico: | Mexican-American Border Region Emigration and immigration History 20th century |
| Soggetto non controllato: | 1920s |
| Mexican | |
| States | |
| United | |
| analytical | |
| civil | |
| exploration | |
| from | |
| historical | |
| labor | |
| migrants | |
| movements | |
| onward | |
| pursuit | |
| rights | |
| transnational | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 319-360) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on Language -- Introduction -- 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 -- Chapter 6. Narrative Acts -- Chapter 7. Migrant Melancholia -- Afterword -- Notes -- Index -- About the Author |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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 1920's onward. Working through key historical moments such as the 1930's, 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Migrant imaginaries |
| ISBN: | 0-8147-9007-0 |
| 1-4416-2290-X | |
| 0-8147-1734-9 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910778329603321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
| Opac: | Controlla la disponibilità qui |
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Nation of newcomers.