... proceedings – strained the union. The leftist labor activists prevailed in most legal battles and sharpened their egalitarian legal consciousness, as exemplified throughout the text of the ILWU Local 37 1952 Yearbook. By the mid-1950s, however, leftist union activists were in retreat and conservative leaders...

... between brutal crimes committed at sea and the development of a legal consciousness within both the judiciary and among seafarers in this period. It tracks how seamen conceived of themselves as individuals and how they defined their place within the United States. The work reveals much about the ways...

... a migrant legal consciousness by circulating narratives of encounters with the law along the same affective circuits that anchor their belonging. Belonging—a complex mix of recognition by, and attachment to, a particular place or group—is constituted by social and emotional connections (citizenship...

... of family life, mobility, and separation. Through a legal consciousness framework, this chapter traces migrant mothers’ development of collective understandings of the symbols, norms, and organizational forms of German laws and regulations. It explores a series of encounters with the state...

... citizenship for military service; permitting interracial marriage; and owning or leasing property to reclaim ownership of productive power. Chapter Two concludes by reflecting on the origins and manifestations of a distinctive Filipino “oppositional legal consciousness.” class Filipino Americans immigration...

... Miro Jose Ramon Guizado political trials legal consciousness President Remón was having a few drinks with some friends in the clubhouse of the Juan Franco Racetrack on the night of January 2, 1955. José Peralta, who had recently lost his job, sat for a minute and asked the president to use his...