Grandmothers on guard gender, aging, and the minutemen at the US-Mexico Border
Grandmothers on guard: gender, aging, and the minutemen at the US-Mexico Border

For about a decade, one of the most influential forces in US anti-immigrant politics was the Minuteman Project. The armed volunteers made headlines patrolling the southern border. What drove their ethno-nationalist politics? Jennifer L. Johnson spent hundreds of hours observing and interviewing Minu...

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Main Author: Johnson, Jennifer L. 1976- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Austin University of Texas Press [2022]
Subjects:
SOCIAL SCIENCE / General
Grandmothers > Political activity > Mexican-American Border Region
Grandmothers > Political activity > Mexican-American Border Region
Minuteman Project
Older women > Political activity > Mexican-American Border Region
Vigilantes > Mexican-American Border Region
Vigilantes > Mexican-American Border Region
Women conservatives > Political activity > Mexican-American Border Region
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Summary:For about a decade, one of the most influential forces in US anti-immigrant politics was the Minuteman Project. The armed volunteers made headlines patrolling the southern border. What drove their ethno-nationalist politics? Jennifer L. Johnson spent hundreds of hours observing and interviewing Minutemen, hoping to answer that question. She reached surprising conclusions. While the public face of border politics is hypermasculine-men in uniforms, fatigues, and suits-older women were central to the Minutemen. Women mobilized support and took part in border missions. These women compel us to look beyond ideological commitments and material benefits in seeking to understand the appeal of right-wing politics. Johnson argues that the women of the Minutemen were motivated in part by the gendered experience of aging in America. In a society that makes old women irrelevant, aging white women found their place through anti-immigrant activism, which wedded native politics to their concern for the safety of their families. Grandmothers on Guard emphasizes another side of nationalism: the yearning for inclusion. The nation the Minutemen imagined was not only a space of exclusion but also one in which these women could belong
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (224 Seiten)
ISBN:9781477322765
DOI:10.7560/322758

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