aIn this beautiful study, Schmidt Camacho demonstrates that Mexican
migrant imaginaries affirm in songs, manifestos, poetry, novels,
and testimonies visions of justice that exceed the limits of the
nation-form and the logics of capital accumulationa
--Lisa Lowe, author of "Immigrant Acts: On Asian American Cultural
Politics"
Migrant Imaginaries explores the transnational movements of
Mexican migrants in pursuit of labor and civil rights in the United
States from the 1920s onward. Working through key historical
moments such as the 1930s, the Chicano Movement, and contemporary
globalization and neoliberalism, Alicia Schmidt Camacho examines
the relationship between ethnic Mexican expressive culture and the
practices sustaining migrant social movements. Combining sustained
historical engagement with theoretical inquiries, she addresses how
struggles for racial and gender equity, cross-border unity, and
economic justice have defined the Mexican presence in the United
States since 1910.
Schmidt Camacho covers a range of archives and sources,
including migrant testimonials and songs, AmA(c)rico Paredesa last
published novel, "The Shadow," the film "Salt of the Earth," the
foundational manifestos of El Movimiento, Richard Rodrigueza
memoirs, narratives by Marisela Norte and Rosario Sanmiguel, and
"testimonios" of Mexican women workers and human rights activists,
as well as significant ethnographic research. Throughout, she
demonstrates how Mexicans and Mexican Americans imagined their
communal ties across the border, and used those bonds to contest
their noncitizen status. Migrant Imaginaries places migrants at the
center of the hemisphereas most pressing concerns, contending
thatborder crossers have long been vital to social change.
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