Format:
Online-Ressource (313 p)
ISBN:
9780822376118
Series Statement:
American Encounters / Global Interactions
Content:
〈div〉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.〈BR〉〈/div〉
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Bregando the Sugar Beet Fields; 1. Family and Fatherhood in "a New Era for All": Populist Politics and Reformed Colonialism; 2. Building Homes, Domesticity Dreams, and the Drive to Modernity; 3. Removing "Excess Population": Redirecting the Great Migration; 4. Arriving in Michigan: The Collapse of the Dream; 5. The Brega Expands; Conclusion: Persistent Bregas; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780822357667
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Findlay, Eileen J. Suárez We are left without a father here Durham [u.a.] : Duke University Press, 2014 ISBN 9780822357667
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780822357827
Language:
English
Subjects:
Ethnology
Keywords:
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Electronic books
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URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/9780822376118
