{"product_id":"making-the-chinese-mexican-9780804788625","title":"Making the Chinese Mexican","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMaking the Chinese Mexican\u003c\/i\u003e presents a fresh perspective on immigration, nationalism, and racism through the experiences of Chinese migrants in the U.S.-Mexico borderlandsduring the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eMaking the Chinese Mexican\u003c\/i\u003e is sophisticated social and cultural history of the U.S.-Mexican borderlands. . . . Delgado masterfully provides both a view from the ground and one from the bird's eye. . . . Opening new possibilities for further research, the book demonstrates how using a borderlands lens can change the way we view migration.\" -- Julia M. Schiavone Camacho * \u003ci\u003eInternational Migration Review\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"Delgado provides a well-researched, significant addition to borderland history and an excellent example of the growing trend toward transnational examinations of borderland regions around the world . . . Recommended.\" -- C. L. Sinclair * \u003ci\u003eCHOICE\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"This path-breaking history is a probing analysis of the interconnected worlds that the Chinese in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands created, inhabited, and sometimes contested. \u003ci\u003eMaking the Chinese Mexican\u003c\/i\u003e is a stunning example of borderlands history.\" -- Erika Lee * University of Minnesota *\u003cbr\u003e\"Delgado gives new life to the argument that the U.S.-Mexico borderlands were diverse and unpredictable. Her attentiveness to the commonalities and differences in the U.S. and Mexico, as well as the historical possibilities and tragedies, will make this required reading for all social historians of the region.\" -- Katherine Benton-Cohen * Georgetown University *\u003cbr\u003e\"While [\u003ci\u003eMaking the Chinese Mexican\u003c\/i\u003e] fills the lacuna in the scholarsip on Chinese Mexicans, its greater contribution is in advancing knowledge on subjects such as nationalism, globalizaiton, empire building, diaspora, racism, racial identity, transnationalism, cultural construction, and, of course, the meaning of borderlands.\" -- Arnoldo De León * \u003ci\u003eThe Journal of American History\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"In this seminal new work, Grace Peña Delgado offers a compelling transnational history of Chinese \u003ci\u003efronterizos\u003c\/i\u003e, or borderlanders. She provides a detailed and pathbreaking analysis of the formation and development of the many Chinese-Mexican communitites that dotted the Arizona-Sonora border during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries . . . \u003ci\u003eMaking the Chinese Mexican\u003c\/i\u003e represents a pioneering contribution to the historiography of the Chinese of Mexico and the borderlands . . . it provides borderland scholars with the first nuanced look into the daily lives of Chinese fronterizos.\" -- Robert Chao Romero * \u003ci\u003eNew Mexico Historical Review\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"Peña Delgado highlights the importance of this Chinese presence to understand current images of the U.S.- Mexico borderlands. . . . Her book shifts toward a transnational and global history that includes imperial Spain and Britain, and dynastic China. . . . [The author] adopt[s] a transnational approach to the social history of the Chinese presence in Mexico, revealing the many connections and networks that linked them to other Chinese communities.\" * Ignacio López-Calvo \u003ci\u003eChina Review International\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"Well-written, grounded in solid research, and innovative.\" -- Yukari Takai * \u003ci\u003eLabour \/ Le Travail\u003c\/i\u003e *","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405614162263,"sku":"9780804788625","price":22.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780804788625.jpg?v=1730493002","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/making-the-chinese-mexican-9780804788625","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}