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Working the Boundaries : Race, Space, and Illegality in Mexican Chicago.

By: Material type: TextPublisher: Durham : Duke University Press, 2005Copyright date: ©2005Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (349 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780822387091
Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 305.800977311
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Contents:
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.
Summary: An ethnographic study of transnational migration, racialization, labor subordination, and citizenship in Chicago's Mexican migrant community.
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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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