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We Are Left without a Father Here

Name: We Are Left without a Father Here
Brand: Duke University Press
SKU: 05145474
Price: 125.79 EUR
Availability: InStock
Author: Eileen J. Suarez Findlay
ISBN: 9780822357667

Masculinity, Domesticity, and Migration in Postwar Puerto Rico

Eileen J. Suarez Findlay

Language

English

Book Hardback

Libristo code: 05145474

Publishers Duke University Press, December 2014

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"We Are Left without a Father Here" is 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. The men expected to earn enough income to finally become successful breadwinners and fathers. To their dismay, the men encountered abysmal working conditions and pay. The migrant workers in Michigan and their wives in Puerto Rico soon exploded in protest. Chronicling the protests, the surprising alliances that they created, and the Puerto Rican government's response, Eileen J. Suarez Findlay explains that notions of fatherhood and domesticity were central to Puerto Rican populist politics. Patriarchal ideals shaped citizens' understandings of themselves, their relationship to Puerto Rican leaders and the state, as well as the meanings they ascribed to U.S. colonialism. Findlay argues that the motivations and strategies for transnational labor migrations, colonial policies, and worker solidarities are all deeply gendered.