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Masculine sweat, stoop-labor modernity: Gender, race, and nation in mid-twentieth century Mexico and the U.S.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Masculine sweat, stoop-labor modernity: Gender, race, and nation in mid-twentieth century Mexico and the U.S./
Author:	Cohen, Deborah.
Description:	515 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 61-12, Section: A, page: 4911.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International61-12A.
Subject:	Anthropology, Cultural. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9997154
ISBN:	9780493050331

Masculine sweat, stoop-labor modernity: Gender, race, and nation in mid-twentieth century Mexico and the U.S.
Cohen, Deborah.

Masculine sweat, stoop-labor modernity: Gender, race, and nation in mid-twentieth century Mexico and the U.S. - 515 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 61-12, Section: A, page: 4911.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Chicago, 2001.

The dissertation explores the ways in which the physical movement, bodies, and labor of Mexican bracero migrants working in US agricultural fields became sites of resistance in the struggle over Mexico's modernity. Recounting these laborers' experiences, I make visible the ways in which their work and bodies functioned as racialized and gendered terrains implicated in Mexico's attempt to claim modern nationhood and to (re)make national identity.

ISBN: 9780493050331Subjects--Topical Terms:

735016
Anthropology, Cultural.

Masculine sweat, stoop-labor modernity: Gender, race, and nation in mid-twentieth century Mexico and the U.S.
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520 $a The dissertation explores the ways in which the physical movement, bodies, and labor of Mexican bracero migrants working in US agricultural fields became sites of resistance in the struggle over Mexico's modernity. Recounting these laborers' experiences, I make visible the ways in which their work and bodies functioned as racialized and gendered terrains implicated in Mexico's attempt to claim modern nationhood and to (re)make national identity.
520 $a From 1942 to 1964, Mexican men journeyed al norte to work as migrants. In the process, they were deloused; their clothes were washed and disinfected; and their bodies were subjected to x-rays and a doctor's probing. While some scholars have considered this treatment "objectively" degrading, most migrants I interviewed expressed a certain pride at having made it through the rigorous selection process. Far from viewing themselves as helpless victims in a diplomatic exchange, these men portrayed their experiences as lessons in the ways of modernity. The lessons they learned, moreover, diverged markedly from those goals expressed by the Mexican and US architects of the program.
520 $a To make this disjuncture visible, the dissertation retraces the journeys of these laborers. It situates their experience of these journeys against the government's stated reasons for supporting the labor program. It shows how the Mexican state mobilized certain ideas and practices of modernity to frame its endorsement of the Bracero Program, a series of Mexico-US labor treaties which brought Mexican migrants to work in US agricultural fields. Juxtaposing these state-generated discourses and images, the dissertation then centers the very moments, spaces, and ways in which men incorporated, challenged, rebuked, and/or played with these state ideas/ideals and their practices. It lays out how these migrants often interpreted their experiences of "race" and racism, gender, nationalism, citizenship, and class through the language and lens of modernity. Modernity, in other words, became a lived Mexico-US border.
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