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P In 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 accumulation BR Lisa Lowe, author of /IImmigrant Acts: On Asian American Cultural Politics/I/PPBMigrant Imaginaries/B 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./PPSchmidt Camacho covers a range of archives and sources, including migrant testimonials and songs, Americo Paredes last published novel, IThe Shadow/I, the film ISalt of the Earth/I, the foundational manifestos of El Movimiento, Richard Rodriguez memoirs, narratives by Marisela Norte and Rosario Sanmiguel, and Itestimonios/I 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. BMigrant Imaginaries/B places migrants at the center of the hemisphere s most pressing concerns, contending that border crossers have long been vital to social change./P
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