Grounds for dreaming
Subtitle: Mexican Americans, Mexican immigrants, and the California farmworker movement
By: Lori A. Flores
Series: [The Lamar series in Western history]; Lamar series in western history
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780300196962
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: History; Mexican Americans; Agricultural laborers; Labor unions; Migrant labor
Description: "Known as "The Salad Bowl of the World," California's Salinas Valley became an agricultural empire due to the toil of diverse farmworkers, including Latinos. A sweeping critical history of how Mexican Americans and Mexican immigrants organized for their rights in the decades leading up to the seminal strikes led by Cesar Chavez, this important work also looks closely at how different groups of Mexicans--U.S. born, bracero, and undocumented--confronted and interacted with one another during this period. An incisive study of labor, migration, race, gender, citizenship, and class, Lori Flores's first book offers crucial insights for today's ever-growing U.S. Latino demographic, the farmworker rights movement, and future immigration policy."--Publisher's web site.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-274) and index.
Table of contents: title: The racial and labor landscapes of the Salinas Valley before World War II; title: Racial meeting grounds and battlegrounds during wartime, 1941-1947; title: Bound in tension : Mexican Americans, braceros, and undocumented migrants, 1947-1960; title: The community service organization, 1953-1963; title: A town full of dead Mexicans : the Salinas Valley bracero tragedy of 1963; title: The farmworker movement in the post-bracero era; title: A blossoming of red flags : the Salinas UFWOC strike of 1970; title: Conclusion : the farmworker justice movement, 1970 to the present.