We Are Left Without a Father Here: Masculinity, Domesticity, and Migration in Postwar Puerto Rico

by Eileen J. Suárez Findlay

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822357828
• ISBN13: 9780822357827
• Release Date: December 2014
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"