Defiant Braceros : How Migrant Workers Fought for Racial, Sexual, and Political Freedom

Defiant Braceros How Migrant Workers Fought for Racial, Sexual, and Political Freedom

"In this book, Mireya Loza sheds new light on the history of the Bracero Program (1942-1964), the binational agreement between the United States and Mexico that allowed hundreds of thousands of male Mexican workers to enter this country on temporary work permits. While this program and the issu...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Loza, Mireya, author (author)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press [2016]
Colección:David J. Weber series in the new borderlands history.
Materias:
Seasonal Farm Laborers Program.
Foreign workers, Mexican > United States > Economic conditions > History.
Foreign workers, Mexican > United States > Social conditions > History.
Foreign workers, Mexican > Political activity > United States > History.
Mexicans > Race identity > United States.
Foreign workers, Mexican > United States > History.
Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009799135606719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction. Making braceros
  • Interlude. Me modernice
  • Yo era indígena: race, modernity, and the transformational politics of transnational labor
  • Interlude. Yo le digo!
  • In the camp's shadows: intimate economies in the Bracero Program
  • Interlude. Documenting
  • Unionizing the impossible: Alianza de Braceros Nacionales de Mexico en los Estados Unidos
  • Interlude. Ten percent
  • La política de la dignidad: creating the Bracero Justice Movement
  • Interlude. Performing masculinities
  • Epilogue. Representing memory: braceros in the archive and museum.

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