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10%OFFPatricia Zavella - I'm Neither Here Nor There - 9780822350354 - V9780822350354
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I'm Neither Here Nor There

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Description for I'm Neither Here Nor There Paperback. How immigration influences the construction of family, identity, and community among Mexican Americans and migrants from Mexico Num Pages: 352 pages, 11 illustrations, 2 tables, 2 figures. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; JFC; JHBK; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 156 x 22. Weight in Grams: 500.
I’m Neither Here nor There explores how immigration influences the construction of family, identity, and community among Mexican Americans and migrants from Mexico. Based on long-term ethnographic research, Patricia Zavella describes how poor and working-class Mexican Americans and migrants to California’s central coast struggle for agency amid the region’s deteriorating economic conditions and the rise of racial nativism in the United States. Zavella also examines tensions within the Mexican diaspora based on differences in legal status, generation, gender, sexuality, and language. She proposes “peripheral vision” to describe the sense of displacement and instability felt by Mexican Americans and Mexicans who ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822350354
SKU
V9780822350354
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About Patricia Zavella
Patricia Zavella is Professor of Latin American and Latino Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is the author of Women’s Work and Chicano Families: Cannery Workers of the Santa Clara Valley and a co-author of Sunbelt Working Mothers: Reconciling Family and Factory. Zavella is a co-editor of Chicana Feminisms: A Critical Reader, Telling to Live: Latina Feminist ... Read more

Reviews for I'm Neither Here Nor There
“I’m Neither Here nor There is a powerful, highly original ethnography about the complexities of the Mexican migrant and Mexican American population in the United States. By drawing primarily on work by scholars of color about people of color, Patricia Zavella decenters staid ways of understanding immigration, such as assimilation and the underclass models. Her use of the concepts of ... Read more

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