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Grandmothers on Guard : Gender, Aging, and the Minutemen at the US-Mexico Border



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Autore: Johnson Jennifer Visualizza persona
Titolo: Grandmothers on Guard : Gender, Aging, and the Minutemen at the US-Mexico Border Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Austin : , : University of Texas Press, , 2021
©2021
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (222 pages)
Disciplina: 364.1
Soggetto topico: Grandmothers - Political activity - Mexican-American Border Region
Older women - Political activity - Mexican-American Border Region
Vigilantes - Mexican-American Border Region
Women conservatives - Political activity - Mexican-American Border Region
SOCIAL SCIENCE / General
Soggetto non controllato: conservative women's groups
conservative women's history
border security
anti-immigration
white supremacy in America
border studies
vigilante group
Gender Studies
Minutemen
US Mexico Border
Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Border Politics and Invisible Women -- Chapter 1. Granny Brigades and Political Spectacle at the US-Mexico Border -- Chapter 2. Doing Old Womanhood at the Edge of the Nation-State -- Chapter 3. Grandma Grizzlies to the Rescue of Family and Nation -- Chapter 4. Misogyny Minuteman-Style and Women Tough Enough to Take It -- Chapter 5. Bringing the Border Back Home -- Conclusion. From Republican Motherhood to Patriotic Grandmotherhood -- Appendix. Walking the Line -- References -- Index
Sommario/riassunto: For about a decade, one of the most influential forces in US anti-immigrant politics was the Minuteman Project. The armed volunteers made headlines patrolling the southern border. What drove their ethno-nationalist politics? Jennifer L. Johnson spent hundreds of hours observing and interviewing Minutemen, hoping to answer that question. She reached surprising conclusions. While the public face of border politics is hypermasculine—men in uniforms, fatigues, and suits—older women were central to the Minutemen. Women mobilized support and took part in border missions. These women compel us to look beyond ideological commitments and material benefits in seeking to understand the appeal of right-wing politics. Johnson argues that the women of the Minutemen were motivated in part by the gendered experience of aging in America. In a society that makes old women irrelevant, aging white women found their place through anti-immigrant activism, which wedded native politics to their concern for the safety of their families. Grandmothers on Guard emphasizes another side of nationalism: the yearning for inclusion. The nation the Minutemen imagined was not only a space of exclusion but also one in which these women could belong.
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ISBN: 1-4773-2276-0
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910838226403321
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