Findlay / Eileen J. Suarez Findlay We Are Left without a Father Here

Masculinity, Domesticity, and Migration in Postwar Puerto Rico
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-0-8223-7611-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 312 Seiten

Reihe: American Encounters/Global Interactions

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Findlay, Eileen J. Suárez

Eileen J. Suarez Findlay, Findlay

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction. Bregando the Sugar Beet Fields 1

1. Family and Fatherhood in "a New Era for All": Populist Politics and Reformed Colonialism 25

2. Building Homes, Domesticity Dreams, and the Drive to Modernity 59

3. Removing "Excess Population": Redirecting the Great Migration 90

4. Arriving in Michigan: The Collapse of the Dream 118

5. The Brega Expands 148

Conclusion. Persistent Bregas 173

Notes 191

Bibliography 257

Index 295

Über Autor(innen)

Eileen J. Suárez Findlay is Associate Professor of Latin American and Caribbean History at American University. She is the author of Imposing Decency: The Politics of Sexuality and Race in Puerto Rico, 1870–1920, also published by Duke University Press.