We Are Left without a Father Here: Masculinity, Domesticity, and Migration in Postwar Puerto Rico (American Encounters/Global Interactions)

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We Are Left with out a Father Here is a transnational history of working other 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, on the behest of the Puerto Rican government, migrated to Michigan in 1950 to work within the state’s sugar beet fields. The lads expected to earn enough source of revenue to in the end turn out to be successful breadwinners and fathers. To their dismay, The lads encountered abysmal working conditions and pay. The migrant workers in Michigan and their other halves 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. Suárez 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, in addition to 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.
 
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