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During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, people
living in the coffee-producing region of the Sierra Madre mountains
along the Pacific Coast of Mexico and Guatemala paid little
attention to national borders. The Mexican Revolution,
--particularly during the 1930s reconstruction phase--ruptured
economic and social continuity because access to revolutionary
reforms depended on claiming Mexican national identity.
Impoverished, often indigenous rural workers on both sides of the
border used shifting ideas of citizenship and cultural belonging to
gain power and protect their economic and social interests.
With this book Catherine Nolan-Ferrell builds on recent
theoretical approaches to state formation and transnationalism to
explore the ways that governments, elites, and marginalized
laborers claimed and contested national borders. By investigating
how various groups along the Mexico-Guatemala border negotiated
nationality, " Constructing Citizenship "offers insights into the
complex development of transnational communities, the links between
identity and citizenship, and the challenges of integrating
disparate groups into a cohesive nation. Entwined with a labor
history of rural workers, Nolan-Ferrell also shows how labor
struggles were a way for poor Mexicans and migrant Guatemalans to
assert claims to national political power and social
inclusion.
Combining oral histories with documentary research from local,
regional, and national archives to provide a complete picture of
how rural laborers along Mexico's southern border experienced the
years before, during, and after the Mexican Revolution, this book
will appeal not only to Mexicanists but also to scholars interested
in transnational identity, border studies, social justice, and
labor history.
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