Los Yarderos

Mexican Yard Workers in Transborder Chicago

Sergio Lemus (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

216 Seiten

2025 | New edition
University of Illinois Press (Verlag)
978-0-252-08866-7 (ISBN)

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Migrants from the Mexican states of Zacatecas, Guanajuato, Jalisco, and MichoacÁn have become an important presence in Chicago and the Midwest. Many hold jobs as yarderos gardening, caring for lawns, and doing other landscaping work. Sergio Lemus explores the lives of these migrants and looks at the struggles they face as they work to make the city their home. Drawing on fieldwork in South Chicago, Lemus tells the stories of first and second-generation yarderos and discusses the historical, economic, cultural, and political ramifications they face as they acquire their working-class identity. Lemus’s compassionate portrait places them within America’s ongoing tradition as a nation of immigrants while analyzing their place within today’s transborder cultural moment.

Perceptive and humane, Los Yarderos reveals how a group of Mexican immigrants navigates the crossings of the borders that divide class, color hierarchies, gender, and belonging.

Sergio Lemus is an assistant professor at Texas A&M University.

Preface: Inspecting Borders

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter 1. Becoming Yarderos: Migration, Capitalism, and Culture

Chapter 2. Dispossessed Masculinity: The Market and the Cultural Production of Migrant Mexican Men

Chapter 3. Performing Power: The Body, Capitalist Discipline, and Laughing Hard

Chapter 4. Color Inspections: Alternative Imaginings of Racial Landscapes among Yarderos/as

Chapter 5. Los Morenos y Los Mejicanos: On Colorism, Mugging, and Lateral Race-Making in South Chicago

Chapter 6. On Mexican Sacer: Anti-Immigrant Discourse, Deportability, and Working-Class Criminalization

Conclusion: Yardero Lives Matter

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	14.05.2025
Reihe/Serie	Latinos in Chicago and Midwest
Zusatzinfo	12 black & white photographs, 2 maps
Verlagsort	Baltimore
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	340 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
	Wirtschaft
ISBN-10	0-252-08866-2 / 0252088662
ISBN-13	978-0-252-08866-7 / 9780252088667
Zustand	Neuware