Cargando…

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...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Loza, Mireya (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2016]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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.