Migrant Imaginaries : : Latino Cultural Politics in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands / / Alicia Schmidt Camacho.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Camacho, Alicia Schmidt,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2008]; ©2008
• Year of Publication: 2008
• Language: English
• Series: Nation of Nations ; 12
• Physical Description: 1 online resource
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; A Note on Language --; Introduction --; Part I. Border Crossers in Mexican American Cultural Politics --; Chapter 1. These People Are Not Aliens --; Chapter 2. Migrant Modernisms --; Chapter 3. No Constitution for Us --; Chapter 4. Bordered Civil Rights --; Chapter 5. Tracking the New Migrants --; Part II. Border Crossings --; Chapter 6. Narrative Acts --; Chapter 7. Migrant Melancholia --; Afterword --; Notes --; Index --; About the Author
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780814790076; 9783110706444
• DOI: 10.18574/nyu/9780814790076.001.0001
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Alicia Schmidt Camacho.

Winner of the 2009 Lora Romero First Book Prize from the American Studies Association2009 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleMigrant 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.