{"product_id":"los-yarderos-mexican-yard-workers-in-transborder-chicago-paperback-softback-9780252088667","title":"Los Yarderos; Mexican Yard Workers in Transborder Chicago (Paperback \/ softback) 9780252088667","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eLos Yarderos\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eMexican Yard Workers in Transborder Chicago\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eSergio Lemus (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780252088667\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 20 May 2025\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e216 pages, 12 black \u0026amp; white photographs, 2 maps\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.34 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e“\u003ci\u003eLos Yarderos\u003c\/i\u003e is an exceptional ethnography of a ubiquitous but distinct and largely invisibilized type of migrant labor that connects the precarious working lives of Mexican men in the informal service economy to the domestic comforts and conceits of a vast cross-section of ordinary U.S. citizens: lawn mowing and related sorts of landscaping work. This book is extraordinary because anthropologist Sergio Lemus unpacks this world of hard work, honor, and aspiration from the inside, having himself worked as a \u003ci\u003eyardero\u003c\/i\u003e in the same Chicago neighborhood where he grew up after his family migrated from Mexico when he was a child. His intimate knowledge of this labor and the cultural world of the men who earn their living doing it lend this study remarkable insight and sensitivity.--Nicholas De Genova, author of \u003ci\u003eWorking the Boundaries: Race, Space, and “Illegality” in Mexican Chicago\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eMigrants from the Mexican states of Zacatecas, Guanajuato, Jalisco, and MichoacÁn have become an important presence in Chicago and the Midwest. Many hold jobs as yarderos gardening, caring for lawns, and doing other landscaping work. \u003cp\u003e Sergio Lemus explores the lives of these migrants and looks at the struggles they face as they work to make the city their home. Drawing on fieldwork in South Chicago, Lemus tells the stories of first and second-generation yarderos and discusses the historical, economic, cultural, and political ramifications they face as they acquire their working-class identity. Lemus’s compassionate portrait places them within America’s ongoing tradition as a nation of immigrants while analyzing their place within today’s transborder cultural moment. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Perceptive and humane, \u003ci\u003eLos Yarderos\u003c\/i\u003e reveals how a group of Mexican immigrants navigates the crossings of the borders that divide class, color hierarchies, gender, and belonging. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e Preface: Inspecting Borders \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Acknowledgments \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Introduction \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Chapter 1. Becoming Yarderos: Migration, Capitalism, and Culture \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Chapter 2. Dispossessed Masculinity: The Market and the Cultural Production of Migrant Mexican Men \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Chapter 3. Performing Power: The Body, Capitalist Discipline, and Laughing Hard \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Chapter 4. Color Inspections: Alternative Imaginings of Racial Landscapes among Yarderos\/as \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Chapter 5. \u003ci\u003eLos Morenos y Los Mejicanos\u003c\/i\u003e: On Colorism, Mugging, and Lateral Race-Making in South Chicago \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Chapter 6. On Mexican \u003ci\u003eSacer: \u003c\/i\u003eAnti-Immigrant Discourse, Deportability, and Working-Class Criminalization \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Conclusion: Yardero Lives Matter \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Notes \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Bibliography \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Index \u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Illinois Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52523558895896,"sku":"9780252088667","price":19.39,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/los-yarderos-mexican-yard-workers-in-transborder-chicago-paperback-softback-9780252088667","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}