Defiant braceros : how migrant workers fought for racial, sexual, and political freedom /

Show other versions (1)

"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...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Loza, Mireya (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2016]
Series:David J. Weber series in the new borderlands history.
Subjects:
Seasonal Farm Laborers Program.
Seasonal Farm Laborers Program
Foreign workers, Mexican > United States > History.
Mexicans > Race identity > United States.
Foreign workers, Mexican > Political activity > United States > History.
Foreign workers, Mexican > United States > Social conditions > History.
Foreign workers, Mexican > United States > Economic conditions > History.
Foreign workers, Mexican > United States > Social conditions.
Foreign workers, Mexican > United States > Economic conditions.
Travailleurs étrangers mexicains > États-Unis > Histoire.
Mexicains > Identité ethnique > États-Unis.
Travailleurs étrangers mexicains > Activité politique > États-Unis > Histoire.
Travailleurs étrangers mexicains > États-Unis > Conditions sociales.
Travailleurs étrangers mexicains > États-Unis > Conditions économiques.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Labor.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Labor & Industrial Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > Hispanic American Studies.
Foreign workers, Mexican
Foreign workers, Mexican > Economic conditions
Foreign workers, Mexican > Social conditions
Mexicans > Race identity
United States
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction. Making braceros
  • Interlude. Me modernicé
  • 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 México 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.

Similar Items