Braceros : migrant citizens and transnational subjects in the postwar United States and Mexico / Deborah Cohen.
| Author/creator |
Cohen, Deborah, 1968- |
| Format | Book and Print |
| Publication Info | Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2011. |
| Description | 328 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm |
| Subject(s) |
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| 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. |
| General note | "Published in association with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University." |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. [279]-304) and index. |
| LCCN | 2010029264 |
| ISBN | 9780807833599 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0807833592 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions | |
| Joyner | General Stacks | HD1525 .C62 2011 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |