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We are left without a father here : masculinity, domesticity, and migration in postwar Puerto Rico / Eileen J. Suárez Findlay.

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 st...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Duke)
Main Author: Findlay, Eileen (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2014.
Series:American encounters/global interactions.
Subjects:
Masculinity > Social aspects > Puerto Rico.
Migrant labor > Government policy > Puerto Rico > History > 20th century.
Migrant agricultural laborers > Michigan > Social conditions > 20th century.
Puerto Rico > Politics and government > 1898-1952.
Masculinity > Social aspects.
Migrant agricultural laborers > Social conditions.
Migrant labor > Government policy.
Politics and government.
Michigan.
Puerto Rico.
History.
Table of 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.

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