Los yarderos : Mexican yard workers in transborder Chicago / Sergio Lemus.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lemus, Sergio, author.

Series:

Latinos in Chicago and the Midwest

Latinos in Chicago and the midwest

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Foreign workers, Mexican--Illinois--Chicago.

Foreign workers, Mexican.

Foreign workers, Mexican--Middle West.

Lawn care industry--Illinois--Chicago.

Lawn care industry.

Lawn care industry--Middle West.

Mexicans--Illinois--Chicago--Social conditions.

Mexicans.

Mexicans--Middle West--Social conditions.

Chicago (Ill.)--Ethnic relations.

Chicago (Ill.).

Middle West--Ethnic relations.

Middle West.

Physical Description:

xvi, 185 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2025]

Summary:

"Migrants from the Mexican states of Zacatecas, Guanajuato, Jalisco, and Michoacán have become an important presence in Chicago and the Midwest. Many hold jobs as yarderos gardening, caring for lawns, and doing other landscaping work. Sergio Lemus explores the lives of these migrants and looks at the struggles they face as they work to make the city their home. Drawing on fieldwork in South Chicago, Lemus tells the stories of first and second-generation yarderos and discusses the historical, economic, cultural, and political ramifications they face as they acquire their working-class identity. Lemus's compassionate portrait places them within America's ongoing tradition as a nation of immigrants while analyzing their place within today's transborder cultural moment. Perceptive and humane, Los Yarderos reveals how a group of Mexican immigrants navigates the crossings of the borders that divide class, color hierarchies, gender, and belonging"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Becoming Yarderos: Migration, Capitalism, and Culture

Dispossessed Masculinity: The Market and the Cultural Production of Migrant Mexican Men

Performing Power: The Body, Capitalist Discipline, and Laughing Hard

Color Inspections: Alternative Imaginings of Racial Landscapes among Yarderos/as

Los Morenos y Los Mejicanos: On Colorism, Mugging, and Lateral Race-Making in South Chicago

On Mexican Sacer: Anti-Immigrant Discourse, Deportability, and Working-Class Criminalization

Conclusion: Yardero Lives Matter

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Lemus, Sergio. Los yarderos

ISBN:

9780252046551

0252046552

9780252088667

0252088662

OCLC:

1507843323

Publisher Number:

90102680074