Grandmothers on Guard: Gender, Aging, and the Minutemen at the Us-Mexico Border

by Jennifer Johnson

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,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1477322752
• ISBN13: 9781477322758
• Release Date: May 2021
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.1"