MIGRATING FICTIONS: GENDER, RACE, AND CITIZENSHIP IN U.S. INTERNAL DISPLACEMENTS
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Dedication
CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
INTRODUCTION: The “Unprecedented” Internal U.S. Migrations of the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries
THEORIZING MIGRATION AND CITIZENSHIP
THEORIES OF MOVEMENT AND THE ROLE OF GENDER
TWENTIETH-CENTURY MIGRATIONS AND THIRDSPACE
CHAPTER 1: The Economic and Environmental Displacements during the Great Migration: Precarious Citizenship and Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God
HISTORY, GENDER, AND GENRE DURING THE GREAT MIGRATION
SIGNIFYING THROUGH ALLEGORY: MOVEMENT IN THE AFRICAN DIASPORIC TRADITION
UNFREE CITIZENSHIP: SHARECROPPING AND OPPRESSIVE OWNERSHIP
THE TALENTED TENTH: REPLICATING THE GOVERNMENTAL STRUCTURES OF THE PLANTATION
EGALITARIAN OWNERSHIP AMONG THE FOLK
MIGRANT LABOR AND THE SHIFTING ROLE OF MOVEMENT: LIVING ON THE MUCK
THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE: URBAN PROTEST AND ITS DISCONTENTS
A UTOPIAN THIRDSPACE OF OWNERSHIP AND SELF-POSSESSION
CHAPTER 2: The Environmental Displacement of the Dust Bowl: From the Yeoman Myth to Collective Respect and Babb’s Whose Names Are Unknown
HISTORY OF THE YEOMAN
CIMARRON COUNTY, OKLAHOMA
FLAWS IN THE YEOMAN MYTH
COMMUNITY INTERACTIONS AND COLLECTIVE RESPECT
THE EFFECTS OF THE DEPRESSION AND THE DUST
PRECARIOUS INTERNAL MIGRATION IN CALIFORNIA: THE “FACTORIES IN THE FIELDS”
DEFINING AMERICAN-NESS THROUGH CLASS, PLACE, AND RACE
COMMUNITY BUILDING: A THIRDSPACE TOWARD SOCIAL JUSTICE
CHAPTER 3: The Wartime Displacement of Japanese American Incarceration: Disorientation and Otsuka’s When the Emperor Was Divine
A LEGAL HISTORY OF IMMIGRATION AND INCARCERATION
INCARCERATION NARRATIVES
ORIENTATION AND PLURALISM BEFORE DISPLACEMENT
DISLOCATION AND PATRIARCHY
DISLOCATION AND DISORIENTATION FOR THE REST OF THE FAMILY
TURNING AWAY FROM THE EAST
THE RETURN HOME
CHAPTER 4: The Economic Displacement of Mexican American Migrant Labor: Disembodied Criminality to Embodied Spirituality and Viramontes’s Under the Feet of Jesus
A HISTORY OF THE BORDER: COLONIZATION AND MIGRATION
THE DIFFICULTY OF MOVEMENT AND DISEMBODIED CRIMINALITY
STRUCTURING THE BORDERLAND: NONLINEAR INTERSECTIONS
THE POTENTIAL AND LIMITATIONS OF ORGANIZED RELIGION AND RITUAL
ESTRELLA’S EMBODIMENT OF SPIRITUALITY IN MEXICAN AMERICAN TRADITION
RETURNING TO THE BARN: A SOCIAL JUSTICE THIRDSPACE FOR THE MIGRANT LABORER
CONCLUSION: THINKING THROUGH THE MIGRANT
AFTERWORD: The Mobility Poor of Hurricane Katrina: Salvaging the Family and Ward’s Salvage the Bones
BIBLIOGRAPHY
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