Working the Boundaries : Race, Space, and Illegality in Mexican Chicago.
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TextPublisher: Durham : Duke University Press, 2005Copyright date: ©2005Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (349 pages)Content type: - text
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Intro -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION: WORKING THE BOUNDARIES -- I: POLITICS OF KNOWLEDGE/POLITICS OF PRACTICE -- 1. DECOLONIZING ETHNOGRAPHY -- 2. THE ''NATIVE'S POINT OF VIEW'' : IMMIGRATION AND THE IMMIGRANTAS OBJECTS OF U.S. NATIONALISM -- 3. LOCATING A MEXICAN CHICAGO IN THE SPACE OFTHE U.S. NATION-STATE -- I I . EVERYDAY LIFE: THE LOCATION OF POLITICS -- 4. THE POLITICS OF PRODUCTION -- 5. RERACIALIZATION: BETWEEN ''AMERICANS'' AND BLACKS -- I I I . HISTORICITY: THE POLITICS OF LOCATION -- 6. THE LEGAL PRODUCTION OF MEXICAN/MIGRANT ''ILLEGALITY'' -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX.
An ethnographic study of transnational migration, racialization, labor subordination, and citizenship in Chicago's Mexican migrant community.
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