Working the Boundaries – Race, Space, and "Illegality" in Mexican Chicago
Autor Nicholas De Genovaen Limba Engleză Paperback – 17 oct 2005
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780822336150
ISBN-10: 0822336154
Pagini: 352
Ilustrații: illustrations
Dimensiuni: 154 x 224 x 26 mm
Greutate: 0.47 kg
Editura: MD – Duke University Press
ISBN-10: 0822336154
Pagini: 352
Ilustrații: illustrations
Dimensiuni: 154 x 224 x 26 mm
Greutate: 0.47 kg
Editura: MD – Duke University Press
Recenzii
In this stunning ethnographic achievement, the Mexican workers of Chicago reinvent the city, the labor process, the United States, and our America as a whole: a region that knows no borders. But at the same time the nation-state, the systems of law and politics, and their working lives confine and encumber them. Working the Boundaries shows how much agency and insight are built into the realities of immigration, how limited and self-defeating are the core politics of U.S. nationalism and racism, and how powerful a weapon ethnography can be in the fight for freedom and justice. Nicholas De Genova has produced a book of great insight and beauty. Highly recommended!Howard Winant, author of The New Politics of Race: Globalism, Difference, JusticeNicholas De Genova vividly renders Mexican Chicago, where social relations are simultaneously imbricated in the U.S. political project of regulating labor and immigration and Mexican workers immersion in regional economies and politics in Mexico. His at times provocative assessments of current scholarship will engender further clarity in research and policy discussions about Mexican migration, contributing to American studies, Chicana/o studies, and the ethnography of North America.Patricia Zavella, coeditor of Chicana Feminisms: A Critical ReaderWorking the Boundaries is a timely book that will likely make waves in a number of fields in the social sciences and the humanities. Peter Benson, Journal of Latin American Anthropology
Notă biografică
Nicholas De Genova is Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology and the Latino Studies Program at Columbia University. He is a coauthor of Latino Crossings: Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, and the Politics of Race and Citizenship.
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"Emphasizing a processual ethnographic approach that historicizes subjectivity, "Working the Boundaries" analyzes transnational migration, racialization, class struggle, and state repression expressed through 'illegality' toward Mexicans in late-twentieth-century Chicago. Nicholas De Genova vividly renders 'Mexican Chicago, ' where social relations are simultaneously imbricated in the U.S. political project of regulating labor and immigration and Mexican workers' immersion in regional economies and politics in Mexico. His at times provocative assessments of current scholarship will engender further clarity in research and policy discussions about Mexican migration, contributing to American studies, Chicana/o studies, and the ethnography of North America."--Patricia Zavella, coeditor of "Chicana Feminisms: A Critical Reader"
Cuprins
Acknowledgments ix
Preface xv
Introduction: Working the Boundaries 1
I. Politics of Knowledge/Politics of Practice
1. Decolonizing Ethnography 13
2. The “Native’s Point of View”: Immigration and the Immigrant as Objects of U. S. Nationalism 56
3. Locating a Mexican Chicago in the Space of the U. S. Nation-State 95
II. Everyday Life: The Location of Politics
4. The Politics of Production 147
5. Reracialization: Between “Americans” and Blacks 167
III. Historicity: The Politics of Location
6. The Legal Production of Mexican/Migrant “Illegality” 213
Conclusion 251
Notes 255
Bibliography 281
Index 311
Preface xv
Introduction: Working the Boundaries 1
I. Politics of Knowledge/Politics of Practice
1. Decolonizing Ethnography 13
2. The “Native’s Point of View”: Immigration and the Immigrant as Objects of U. S. Nationalism 56
3. Locating a Mexican Chicago in the Space of the U. S. Nation-State 95
II. Everyday Life: The Location of Politics
4. The Politics of Production 147
5. Reracialization: Between “Americans” and Blacks 167
III. Historicity: The Politics of Location
6. The Legal Production of Mexican/Migrant “Illegality” 213
Conclusion 251
Notes 255
Bibliography 281
Index 311
Descriere
An ethnographic study of transnational migration, racialization, labor subordination, and citizenship in Chicago's Mexican migrant community