Contracting Freedom: Race, Empire, and U.S. Guestworker Programs (Politics and Culture in Modern America)

The first relational study of twentieth-century U.S. guestworker programs from Mexico and the Caribbean, Contracting Freedom explores how 1940s debates over labor programs elided race and empire while further legitimating and extending U.S. domination abroad in the post-World War II era.

• | Author: Maria L. Quintana
• | Publisher: University Of Pennsylvania Press
• | Publication Date: May 10, 2022
• | Number of Pages: 296 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 0812253884
• | ISBN-13: 9780812253887