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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...
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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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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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This biography of Chavez by Richard Griswold del Castillo and Richard A. Garcia is the first to approach Chavez's life - his courageous acts, his turning points, his many perceived personas - in the context of Chicano and American history. It reveals a shy, quiet man who was launched by events into a maelstrom of campesino strikes, religious fervor, and nonviolent battles for justice. Among his friends and supporters he counted Martin Luther King...
10) Bracero
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"This is an obscure but really moving novel about an indigenous man from southern Mexico trying to become to get to the U.S. and become a bracero [guest worker] in the 1950s."--Goodreads
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In '...and the earth did not swallow him' Tomás Rivera presents the life of the peasants of Texas during the 1950s with all their sorrows and joys. The narrator is a young man lost in the shadows of labor exploitation and continually mystified by his interactions in America -- its alien society and institutions. Between constant migration and clashes with bosses and school officials, the young man has to forge his own identity. At the same time that...
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Stylized illustrations by a Caldecott Medalist accompany lyrical prose and poems in this celebration of the life of Cesar Chavez. This thoughtful and beautiful biography illuminates not only the events that made up the great labor leader's life, but also the ideals and inspiration that are his legacy.
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Every generation or so, we are served a compelling reminder of migrant farmwork and of the men, women, and children whose daily hardships put the food on our tables. Now to the ranks of John Steinbeck, Dorothea Lange, James Agee, Walker Evans, and Edward R. Morrow, add Nancy Buirski. Nancy Buirski traversed the country for four years to create this book, a sensitive portrait of a forgotten society. Her subject is the unique lives of those she has...
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