Rows of memory : journeys of a migrant sugar-beet worker / Saúl Sánchez.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sánchez, Sául, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Migrant labor--United States--Biography.

Migrant labor.

Emigration and immigration law.

Labor market.

Mexican American families--Social conditions.

Mexican American families.

Mexican Americans--Biography.

Mexican Americans.

Sánchez, Saúl, 1943-.

Sánchez, Saúl.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (241 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Every year from April to October, the Sánchez family traveled-crowded in the back of trucks, camping in converted barns, tending and harvesting crops across the breadth of the United States. Although hoeing sugar beets with a short hoe was their specialty, they also picked oranges in California, apples in Washington, cucumbers in Michigan, onions and potatoes in Wisconsin, and tomatoes in Iowa. Winters they returned home to the Winter Garden region of South Texas. In 1951, Saúl Sánchez began to contribute to his family's survival by helping to weed onions in Wind Lake, Wisconsin. He was e

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; Foreword: Rows of Memory as an Exemplary Migrant Experience by Omar Valerio-Jiménez; Introduction; 1. The Spinach Capital of the World; 2. Following the Migrant Trail North to Iowa and Minnesota; 3. Leaving for California; 4. The Migrant Experience from Birth to Age Five; 5. A Crystal City Education; 6. Joining the Workforce in Wisconsin; 7. Compromises in Delano, Wind Lake, and Burlington; 8. From La Grammar to Elk Grove Consolidated; 9. Youthful Rebellion in Billings, Montana; 10. Competition in Moses Lake, Washington; 11. Crystal City High

12. New Beginnings in Iowa 13. Graduating from Crystal City; 14. Hauling Tomatoes to the Heinz Plant; 15. Experiments in the Iowa Fields; 16. School and Work from Texas to East L.A.; 17. Working the Rows between Classes; 18. Using the Long Hoe in North Dakota; 19. Adjusting to Academic Life in San Marcos; 20. Leaving the Migrant Trail; Notes; Glossary; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781609382599

1609382595

OCLC:

873142378