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Author : American G.I. Forum
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 66 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book What Price Wetbacks? written by American G.I. Forum and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Texas State Federation of Labor
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 16 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Down in the Valley written by Texas State Federation of Labor and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : American G.I. Forum
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book What Price Wetbacks? written by American G.I. Forum and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michelle Hall Kells
Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780809388059
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (88 download)
Download or read book Héctor P. García written by Michelle Hall Kells and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Henry A. J. Ramos
Publisher : Arte Publico Press
ISBN 13 : 9781611920611
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (26 download)
Download or read book The American GI Forum written by Henry A. J. Ramos and published by Arte Publico Press. This book was released on 1998-06-30 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of the American GI Forum, a civil rights group formed by Hispanic servicemen and women in response to the intolerable conditions they found in their communities upon their return from World War II; covering the years between 1948 and 1983.
Author : Andrew J. Hazelton
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252053648
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)
Download or read book Labor's Outcasts written by Andrew J. Hazelton and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2022-09-13 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the mid-twentieth century, corporations consolidated control over agriculture on the backs of Mexican migrant laborers through a guestworker system called the Bracero Program. The National Agricultural Workers Union (NAWU) attempted to organize these workers but met with utter indifference from the AFL-CIO. Andrew J. Hazelton examines the NAWU's opposition to the Bracero Program against the backdrop of Mexican migration and the transformation of North American agriculture. His analysis details growers’ abuse of the program to undercut organizing efforts, the NAWU's subsequent mobilization of reformers concerned by those abuses, and grower opposition to any restrictions on worker control. Though the union's organizing efforts failed, it nonetheless created effective strategies for pressuring growers and defending workers’ rights. These strategies contributed to the abandonment of the Bracero Program in 1964 and set the stage for victories by the United Farm Workers and other movements in the years to come.
Author : John Weber
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469625245
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)
Download or read book From South Texas to the Nation written by John Weber and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2015-08-25 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early years of the twentieth century, newcomer farmers and migrant Mexicans forged a new world in South Texas. In just a decade, this vast region, previously considered too isolated and desolate for large-scale agriculture, became one of the United States' most lucrative farming regions and one of its worst places to work. By encouraging mass migration from Mexico, paying low wages, selectively enforcing immigration restrictions, toppling older political arrangements, and periodically immobilizing the workforce, growers created a system of labor controls unique in its levels of exploitation. Ethnic Mexican residents of South Texas fought back by organizing and by leaving, migrating to destinations around the United States where employers eagerly hired them--and continued to exploit them. In From South Texas to the Nation, John Weber reinterprets the United States' record on human and labor rights. This important book illuminates the way in which South Texas pioneered the low-wage, insecure, migration-dependent labor system on which so many industries continue to depend.
Author : Steven Mintz
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1405182601
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (51 download)
Download or read book Mexican American Voices written by Steven Mintz and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-05-04 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This short, comprehensive collection of primary documents provides an indispensable introduction to Mexican American history and culture. Includes over 90 carefully chosen selections, with a succinct introduction and comprehensive headnotes that identify the major issues raised by the documents Emphasizes key themes in US history, from immigration and geographical expansion to urbanization, industrialization, and civil rights struggles Includes a 'visual history' chapter of images that supplement the documents, as well as an extensive bibliography
Author : Lori A. Flores
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300216386
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Grounds for Dreaming written by Lori A. Flores and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2016-01-05 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Claud Garner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781494049638
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (496 download)
Download or read book Wetback written by Claud Garner and published by . This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a new release of the original 1947 edition.
Author : David Gregory Gutiérrez
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780842024747
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (247 download)
Download or read book Between Two Worlds written by David Gregory Gutiérrez and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1996 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although immigrants enter the United States from virtually every nation, Mexico has long been identified in the public imagination as one of the primary sources of the economic, social, and political problems associated with mass migration. Between Two Worlds explores the controversial issues surrounding the influx of Mexicans to America. The eleven essays in this anthology provide an overview of some of the most important interpretations of the historical and contemporary dimensions of the Mexican diaspora.
Author : Stephanie Fuller
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137535601
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (375 download)
Download or read book The US-Mexico Border in American Cold War Film written by Stephanie Fuller and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-29 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through an analysis of Cold War Era films including Border Incident , Where Danger Lives , and Touch of Evil , Stephanie Fuller illustrates how cinema across genres developed an understanding of what the U.S.-Mexico border meant within the American cultural imaginary and the ways in which it worked to produce the border.
Author : Alfredo Mirandé
Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
ISBN 13 : 0268086974
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (68 download)
Download or read book Gringo Justice written by Alfredo Mirandé and published by University of Notre Dame Pess. This book was released on 1994-03-25 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gringo Justice is a comprehensive analysis and interpretation of the experiences of the Chicano people with the legal and judicial system in the United States. Beginning in 1848 and working to the present, a theory of Gringo justice is developed and applied to specific areas—displacement from the land, vigilantes and social bandits, the border, the police, gangs, and prisons. A basic issue addressed is how the image of Chicanos as bandits or criminals has persisted in various forms.
Author : Ignacio M. García
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 081654820X
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (165 download)
Download or read book White But Not Equal written by Ignacio M. García and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2022-04-19 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Check out "A Class Apart" - the new PBS American Experience documentary that explores this historic case! In 1952 in Edna, Texas, Pete Hernández, a twenty-one-year-old cotton picker, got into a fight with several men and was dragged from a tavern, robbed, and beaten. Upon reaching his home he collected his .22-caliber rifle, walked two miles back to the tavern, and shot one of the assailants. With forty eyewitnesses and a confession, the case appeared to be open and shut. Yet Hernández v. Texas turned into one of the nation’s most groundbreaking Supreme Court cases. Ignacio García’s White But Not Equal explores this historic but mostly forgotten case, which became the first to recognize discrimination against Mexican Americans. Led by three dedicated Mexican American lawyers, the case argued for recognition of Mexican Americans under the 14th Amendment as a “class apart.” Despite a distinct history and culture, Mexican Americans were considered white by law during this period, yet in reality they were subjected to prejudice and discrimination. This was reflected in Hernández’s trial, in which none of the selected jurors were Mexican American. The concept of Latino identity began to shift as the demand for inclusion in the political and judicial system began. García places the Hernández v. Texas case within a historical perspective and examines the changing Anglo-Mexican relationship. More than just a legal discussion, this book looks at the whole case from start to finish and examines all the major participants, placing the story within the larger issue of the fight for Mexican American civil rights.
Author : United States. Congress
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Total Pages : 1454 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Congressional Record written by United States. Congress and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 1454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Carlos Kevin Blanton
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300210426
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)
Download or read book George I. Sánchez written by Carlos Kevin Blanton and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-28 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George I. Sánchez was a reformer, activist, and intellectual, and one of the most influential members of the "Mexican American Generation" (1930–1960). A professor of education at the University of Texas from the beginning of World War II until the early 1970s, Sánchez was an outspoken proponent of integration and assimilation. He spent his life combating racial prejudice while working with such organizations as the ACLU and LULAC in the fight to improve educational and political opportunities for Mexican Americans. Yet his fervor was not always appreciated by those for whom he advocated, and some of his more unpopular stands made him a polarizing figure within the Latino community. Carlos Blanton has published the first biography of this complex man of notable contradictions. The author honors Sánchez’s efforts, hitherto mostly unrecognized, in the struggle for equal opportunity, while not shying away from his subject’s personal faults and foibles. The result is a long-overdue portrait of a towering figure in mid-twentieth-century America and the all-important cause to which he dedicated his life: Mexican American integration.
Author : David Spener
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 0801460395
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (14 download)
Download or read book Clandestine Crossings written by David Spener and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2011-01-15 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clandestine Crossings delivers an in-depth description and analysis of the experiences of working-class Mexican migrants at the beginning of the twenty-first century as they enter the United States surreptitiously with the help of paid guides known as coyotes. Drawing on ethnographic observations of crossing conditions in the borderlands of South Texas, as well as interviews with migrants, coyotes, and border officials, Spener details how migrants and coyotes work together to evade apprehension by U.S. law enforcement authorities as they cross the border. In so doing, he seeks to dispel many of the myths that misinform public debate about undocumented immigration to the United States. The hiring of a coyote, Spener argues, is one of the principal strategies that Mexican migrants have developed in response to intensified U.S. border enforcement. Although this strategy is typically portrayed in the press as a sinister organized-crime phenomenon, Spener argues that it is better understood as the resistance of working-class Mexicans to an economic model and set of immigration policies in North America that increasingly resemble an apartheid system. In the absence of adequate employment opportunities in Mexico and legal mechanisms for them to work in the United States, migrants and coyotes draw on their social connections and cultural knowledge to stage successful border crossings in spite of the ever greater dangers placed in their path by government authorities.
