Curious unions [electronic resource] : Mexican American workers and resistance in Oxnard, California, 1898-1961 / Frank P. Barajas.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Barajas, Frank P., 1964-

Series:

Race and ethnicity in the American West

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Foreign workers, Mexican--California--Oxnard--History.

Foreign workers, Mexican.

Labor movement--California--Oxnard--History.

Labor movement.

Mexican Americans--Civil rights--California--Oxnard--History.

Mexican Americans.

Mexican Americans--Cultural assimilation--California--Oxnard--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (373 p.)

Place of Publication:

Lincoln, Neb. : University of Nebraska Press, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

César E. Chávez came to Oxnard, California, in 1958, twenty years after he lived briefly in the city as a child with his migrant farmworker family during the Great Depression. This time Chávez returned as the organizer of the Community Service Organization to support the unionization campaign of the United Packinghouse Workers of America. Together the two groups challenged the agricultural industry's use of braceros (imported contract laborers) who displaced resident farmworkers.The Mexican and Mexican American populations in Oxnard were involved in cultural struggles and negotiation

Contents:

List of illustrations

Acknowledgments

List of abbreviations

Introduction

Early curious unions

The (re)creation of community

Segregated integration

Bitter repression, sweet resistance, and cross-cultural unions

The emerging Mexican (American)

Creating Cesar

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-283-71660-7

0-8032-4473-8

OCLC:

818867787