Migrant Citizenship
Race, Rights, and Reform in the U.S. Farm Labor Camp Program
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7309736 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kathryn Morse (Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vermont, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 108 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 629-630 |
| Publication date | 2021-09-30 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of American History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-8723 • E-ISSN: 1945-2314 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/jahist/jaab304 |
| OpenAlex | W4226474273 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
This impressive monograph captures the paradox of the Farm Security Administration (Fsa): a progressive New Deal attempt to advance social democracy blunted and defeated by entrenched white supremacy. Verónica Martínez-Matsuda's research takes us far beyond John Steinbeck's Weedpatch Camp, the Joad family's gleaming refuge in The Grapes of Wrath (1939), to the multiracial, nationwide network of migrant labor camps as sites of contest over full national belonging and citizenship. Focusing on the camps' mission to provide a fair and equal standard of living and democratic rights for migrant families regardless of race, Martínez-Matsuda finds in the camps' intentions and successes a meaningful extension of agency and belonging to migrant families. Her narrative also acknowledges the New Deal's failures on scales large and small to confront its own commitment to whiteness as the measure of full citizenship. Here she builds on the work of Jess Gilbert and others on
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| Citations per year | 1.33 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2023 - 2025 (3) |
| Highly cited | No |