Migrant Imaginaries: Latino Cultural Politics in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands by

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Places migrants at the centre of pressing concerns, contending that border crossers have long been vital to social change

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Winner of the 2009 Lora Romero First Book Prize from the American Studies Association2009 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleExplores the transnational movements of Mexican migrants, including their expressive culture and social movement practicesMigrant Imaginaries explores the transnational movements of Mexican migrants in pursuit of labor and civil rights in the United States from the 1920s onward. Working through key historical moments such as the 1930s, the Chicano Movement, and contemporary globalization and neoliberalism, Alicia Schmidt Camacho examines the relationship between ethnic Mexican expressive culture and the practices sustaining migrant social movements. Combining sustained historical engagement with theoretical inquiries, she addresses how struggles for racial and gender equity, cross-border unity, and economic justice have defined the Mexican presence in the United States since 1910.Schmidt Camacho covers a range of archives and sources, including migrant testimonials and songs, Amrico Parede's last published novel, The Shadow, the film Salt of the Earth, the foundational manifestos of El Movimiento, Richard Rodriguez's memoirs, narratives by Marisela Norte and Rosario Sanmiguel, and testimonios of Mexican women workers and human rights activists, as well as significant ethnographic research. Throughout, she demonstrates how Mexicans and Mexican Americans imagined their communal ties across the border, and used those bonds to contest their noncitizen status. Migrant Imaginaries places migrants at the center of the hemisphere's most pressing concerns, contending that border crossers have long been vital to social change.

Author Biography

Alicia Schmidt Camacho is Sarai Ribicoff Associate Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity, Race, and Migration at Yale University.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments A Note on Language Introduction Part I: Border Crossers in Mexican American Cultural Politics 1. These People Are Not Aliens: Transborder Solidarity in the Shadow of Deportation 2. Migrant Modernisms: Racialized Development under the Bracero Program 3. No Constitution for Us: Class Racism and Cold War Unionism 4. Bordered Civil Rights: Migrants, Feminism, and the Radical Imagination in El Movimiento Chicano 5, Tracking the New Migrants: Richard Rodriguez and Liberal Retrenchment Part II: Border Crossings: Frontiers of New Social Conflict 6. Narrative Acts: Fronteriza Stories of Labor and Subjectivity 7. Migrant Melancholia: Emergent Narratives of the Border Crossing Afterword: A trave's de la linea/Across the Line Notes Index About the Author

Review

"In this beautiful study, Schmidt Camacho demonstrates that Mexican migrant imaginaries affirm in songs, manifestos, poetry, novels, and testimonies visions of justice that exceed the limits of the nation-form and the logics of capital accumulation." Lisa Lowe, author of Immigrant Acts: On Asian American Cultural Politics "Alicia Schmidt Camacho is quite simply one of the most exciting scholars working on Mexican immigration. She draws on history, literature, folklore, cultural studies, and ethnography to produce an unvarnished examination of Mexicano migrants from the standpoint of the people themselves. Tracing the discourses of migration beyond the nation-state and contemporary debate, she powerfully links Amrico Paredes, Luisa Moreno, and the Salt of the Earth strikers within a matrix of a transnational imaginary." Vicki L. Ruiz, author of From Out of the Shadows: Mexican Women in Twentieth-Century America

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Places migrants at the centre of pressing concerns, contending that border crossers have long been vital to social change

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Winner of the 2009 Lora Romero First Book Prize from the American Studies Association 2009 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Migrant Imaginaries explores the transnational movements of Mexican migrants in pursuit of labor and civil rights in the United States from the 1920s onward. Working through key historical moments such as the 1930s, the Chicano Movement, and contemporary globalization and neoliberalism, Alicia Schmidt Camacho examines the relationship between ethnic Mexican expressive culture and the practices sustaining migrant social movements. Combining sustained historical engagement with theoretical inquiries, she addresses how struggles for racial and gender equity, cross-border unity, and economic justice have defined the Mexican presence in the United States since 1910. Schmidt Camacho covers a range of archives and sources, including migrant testimonials and songs, Amrico Parede's last published novel, The Shadow, the film Salt of the Earth, the foundational manifestos of El Movimiento, Richard Rodriguez's memoirs, narratives by Marisela Norte and Rosario Sanmiguel, and testimonios of Mexican women workers and human rights activists, as well as significant ethnographic research. Throughout, she demonstrates how Mexicans and Mexican Americans imagined their communal ties across the border, and used those bonds to contest their noncitizen status. Migrant Imaginaries places migrants at the center of the hemisphere's most pressing concerns, contending that border crossers have long been vital to social change.

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("This remarkable and sobering collection of scholarly works shines much-needed light on our nation's unjust treatment of youth and how the injustice flows most heavily along the lines of race, poverty and disability. Educators, policymakers, and advocates all should find this book as motivating as it is disturbing: for every reason it gives to despair about the current system, it also reveals a pathway toward a far less populated system of juvenile justice, one that actually helps children rather than harms them." )-(Daniel Losen),(co-author of The School-to-Prison Pipeline: Structuring Legal Reform )

Details ISBN0814716482 Short Title MIGRANT IMAGINARIES Publisher New York University Press Language English ISBN-10 0814716482 ISBN-13 9780814716489 Media Book Format Hardcover Illustrations Yes Year 2008 Imprint New York University Press Subtitle Latino Cultural Politics in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands Country of Publication United States Place of Publication New York DOI 10.1604/9780814716489 Series Number 12 UK Release Date 2008-07-24 NZ Release Date 2008-07-24 US Release Date 2008-07-24 Author Alicia Schmidt Camacho Pages 388 Series Nation of Nations Publication Date 2008-07-24 Alternative 9780814716496 DEWEY 304.87210730904 Audience Undergraduate AU Release Date 2008-07-23 We've got this

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