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"These stories are about the Mexican wetbacks I've known and worked with over the years. The stories are true, as far as I was given the ability to write the truth," says Carrol Norquest in the preface to this book. Norquest was a farmer in the Lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas for fifty years and saw the rise of wetback labor in the 1930s and 40s. Most of these stories come from that period, when he employed wetbacks regularly and knew their families,...
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With These Hands presents the world of migrant farmworkers as a complex social and economic system, a network of intertwined lives. The book includes the voices of the growers, farm labor contractors, union organizers, government investigators, coyotes, doctors, teachers, and workers' families living in other countries. No one story, no single truth, can adequately express the farmworkers' world; but this book presents its complexity in vivid and...
12) A migrant family
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Portrays the life of twelve-year-old Juan Medina and his family, migrant workers living in Encinitas, California.
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"At the outset of World War II, California agriculture seemed to be on the cusp of change. Many Californians, reacting to the ravages of the Great Depression, called for a radical reorientation of the highly exploitative labor relations that had allowed the state to become such a productive farming frontier. But with the importation of the first braceros--"guest workers" from Mexico hired on an "emergency" basis after the United States entered the...
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In the early 1970s the authors spent their first seasons picking fruit and following migrant harvests around the country. Students in anthropology and communications, respectively, they were initially stirred by a sense of romantic adventure. Soon they were drawn in by the migrant way of life and the wonderful people they met among the "Okie" fruit pickers. Over time what began as a fascination grew into a commitment, and the authors became wedded...
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