Nicholas De Genova

Working the Boundaries

Race, Space, and Illegality in Mexican Chicago

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

An ethnographic study of transnational migration, racialization, labor subordination, and citizenship in Chicago's Mexican migrant community.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Oktober 2005
• Englisch
• Gewicht: 603g
• ISBN-13: 9780822336266
• ISBN-10: 082233626X
• Artikelnr.: 22079728

Autorenporträt

Nicholas De Genova

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments ix
Preface xv
Introduction: Working the Boundaries 1
I. Politics of Knowledge/Politics of Practice
1. Decolonizing Ethnography 13
2. The “Native’s Point of View”: Immigration and the Immigrant as Objects
of U. S. Nationalism 56
3. Locating a Mexican Chicago in the Space of the U. S. Nation-State 95
II. Everyday Life: The Location of Politics
4. The Politics of Production 147
5. Reracialization: Between “Americans” and Blacks 167
III. Historicity: The Politics of Location
6. The Legal Production of Mexican/Migrant “Illegality” 213
Conclusion 251
Notes 255
Bibliography 281
Index 311