Philip Vera Cruz : a personal history of Filipino immigrants and the Farmworkers movement / Craig Scharlin, Lilia V. Villanueva ; with a new foreword by Elaine H. Kim.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Scharlin, Craig, author.

Villanueva, Lilia V., author.

Kim, Elaine H., author of introduction, etc.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Vera Cruz, Philip, 1904-1994.

Vera Cruz, Philip.

United Farm Workers--History.

United Farm Workers.

Agricultural laborers--Labor union--United States--History.

Agricultural laborers.

Foreign workers, Filipino--United States--History.

Foreign workers, Filipino.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (209 p.)

Edition:

Third edition.

Place of Publication:

Seattle, [Washington] ; London, [England] : University of Washington Press, 2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Filipino farmworkers sat down in the grape fields of Delano, California, in 1965 and began the strike that brought about a dramatic turn in the long history of farm labor struggles in California. Their efforts led to the creation of the United Farm Workers union under Cesar Chavez, with Philip Vera Cruz as its vice-president and highest-ranking Filipino officer. Philip Vera Cruz (1904-1994) embodied the experiences of the manong generation, an enormous wave of Filipino immigrants who came to the United States between 1910 and 1930. Instead of better opportunities, they found racial discrimination, deplorable living conditions, and oppressive labor practices. In his deeply reflective and thought-provoking oral memoir, Vera Cruz explores the toll these conditions took on both families and individuals. Craig Scharlin and Lilia V. Villanueva met Philip Vera Cruz in 1974 as volunteers in the construction of Agbayani Village, the United Farm Workers retirement complex in Delano, California. This oral history, first published in 1992, is the product of hundreds of hours of interviews. Elaine H. Kim teaches Asian American studies at the University of California, Berkeley, and is the author of Asian American Literature: An Introduction to the Writings and Their Social Context.

Contents:

Contents ; Foreword by Elaine H. Kim ; Introduction by Craig Scharlin and Lilia V. Villanueva ; ""Still good at sitting down"" ; ""A matter of survival"" ; ""The most important 2 in my life"" ; ""So close to the good life"" ; ""I sacrificed too much..."" ; ""A minority within a minority"" ; ""The movement must go beyond its leaders"" ; ""Pounding me with their anger"" ; ""My continual struggle"" ; ""A golden foundation"" ; Notes ; Selected Bibliography

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780295802954

0295802952

OCLC:

913562697