Grounds for Dreaming : Mexican Americans, Mexican Immigrants, and the California Farmworker Movement / Lori A. Flores.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Flores, Lori A., Author.

Series:

The Lamar Series in Western History

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Agricultural laborers--California--History.

Agricultural laborers.

Mexican Americans--California--History.

Mexican Americans.

Migrant labor--California--History.

Migrant labor.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (305 p.)

Place of Publication:

New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [2016]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Known as "The Salad Bowl of the World," California's Salinas Valley became an agricultural empire due to the toil of diverse farmworkers, including Latinos. A sweeping critical history of how Mexican Americans and Mexican immigrants organized for their rights in the decades leading up to the seminal strikes led by Cesar Chavez, this important work also looks closely at how different groups of Mexicans-U.S. born, bracero, and undocumented-confronted and interacted with one another during this period. An incisive study of labor, migration, race, gender, citizenship, and class, Lori Flores's first book offers crucial insights for today's ever-growing U.S. Latino demographic, the farmworker rights movement, and future immigration policy.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Introduction

1. The Racial and Labor Landscapes of the Salinas Valley Before World War II

2. Racial Meeting Grounds and Battlegrounds During Wartime, 1941-1947

3. Bound in Tension: Mexican Americans, Braceros, and Undocumented Migrants, 1947-1960

4. The Community Service Organization, 1953-1963

5. A Town Full of Dead Mexicans: The Salinas Valley Bracero Tragedy of 1963

6. The Farmworker Movement in the Post-Bracero Era

7. A Blossoming of Red Flags: The Salinas UFWOC Strike of 1970

Conclusion: The Farmworker Justice Movement, 1970 to the Present

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 06. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

0-300-21638-6

OCLC:

945610079