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		American Sociological Association

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Mapping Collective Memories: Cognitive Mapping and a Critical Narrative Analysis of Bracero Life Stories Ronald L. Mize Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Development Sociology and Latino Studies Cornell University Abstract: Challenging the first principles of collective memory research the paper delineates an alternative approach to collective/history memory through cultural studies and Gramscian approaches. By reconfiguring Jameson's method of cognitive mapping to remove the structural Marxist inclinations the analysis turns to the experiences and memories of former Braceros who were recruited
Program located within the citizens of Mexico has not been seriously considered in academic accounts of Mexico-U.S. relations. As mentioned in the discussion of Harvest of Shame in the "Introduction " the U.S. collective memory of the Bracero Program is largely absent because even during the program's existence the majority of U.S. citizens did not know what was happening in the agricultural fields of the United States. Americans rarely considered who was picking the crops that would eventually be