We Are Left without a Father Here

Name: We Are Left without a Father Here
Brand: Duke University Press
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Masculinity, Domesticity, and Migration in Postwar Puerto Rico

Autor: Eileen J. Suarez Findlay

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Editura: Duke University Press

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"We Are Left without a Father Here" is a transnational history of working people's struggles and a g...

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Autor

Eileen J. Suarez Findlay

Limbă

engleză

Legare

Carte - Copertă tare

Publicat

2014

Pagini

312

EAN

9780822357667

ISBN

0822357666

Enbook ID

05145474

Editura

Duke University Press

Greutate

558

Dimensiuni

152 x 229 x 23

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"We Are Left without a Father Here" is a transnational history of working people's struggles and a gendered analysis of populism and colonialism in mid-twentieth-century Puerto Rico. At its core are the thousands of agricultural workers who, at the behest of the Puerto Rican government, migrated to Michigan in 1950 to work in the state's sugar beet fields. The men expected to earn enough income to finally become successful breadwinners and fathers. To their dismay, the men encountered abysmal working conditions and pay. The migrant workers in Michigan and their wives in Puerto Rico soon exploded in protest. Chronicling the protests, the surprising alliances that they created, and the Puerto Rican government's response, Eileen J. Suarez Findlay explains that notions of fatherhood and domesticity were central to Puerto Rican populist politics. Patriarchal ideals shaped citizens' understandings of themselves, their relationship to Puerto Rican leaders and the state, as well as the meanings they ascribed to U.S. colonialism. Findlay argues that the motivations and strategies for transnational labor migrations, colonial policies, and worker solidarities are all deeply gendered.

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