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Book SynopsisPlaces migrants at the centre of pressing concerns, contending that border crossers have long been vital to social change
Trade ReviewA landmark book. . . . Highly recommended. * Choice *
Notably, Schmidt Camachos comprehensive interdisciplinary work lends insight into the current immigration crisis, one wrought from more than a century of failed national policiesCamacho offer[s] complementary strategies for rethinking the relationship between history (broadly defined) and cultural production. * American Literary History *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 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
