1 option
We are left without a father here : masculinity, domesticity, and migration in postwar Puerto Rico / Eileen J. Suárez Findlay.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Findlay, Eileen.
- Series:
- American encounters/global interactions.
- American encounters/global interactions
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Masculinity--Social aspects--Puerto Rico.
- Masculinity.
- Migrant labor--Government policy--Puerto Rico--History--20th century.
- Migrant labor.
- Migrant agricultural laborers--Michigan--Social conditions--History--20th century.
- Migrant agricultural laborers.
- Puerto Rico--Politics and government--1898-1952.
- Puerto Rico.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (313 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- <div>A transnational history of working people's struggles and a gendered analysis of populism and colonialism in mid-twentieth-century Puerto Rico. At its core are the thousands of agricultural workers who, at the behest of the Puerto Rican government, migrated to Michigan in 1950 to work in the state's sugar beet fields.<BR></div>
- Contents:
- Family and fatherhood in "a new era for all" : populist politics and reformed colonialism
- Building homes, domesticity dreams, and the drive to modernity
- Removing "excess population" : redirecting the great migration
- Arriving in Michigan : the collapse of the dream
- The brega expands.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780822357827
- 0822357828
- 9780822376118
- 0822376113
- OCLC:
- 1143297972
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.