Grounds for Dreaming: Mexican Americans, Mexican Immigrants,

Grounds for Dreaming: Mexican Americans, Mexican Immigrants, and the California Farmworker Movement (The Lamar Series in Western History)

Known as â€œThe Salad Bowl of the World,â€ Californiaâ€™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 Mexicansâ€”U.S. born, bracero, and undocumentedâ€”confronted and interacted with one another during this period.
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An incisive study of labor, migration, race, gender, citizenship, and class, Lori Floresâ€™s first book offers crucial insights for todayâ€™s ever-growing U.S. Latino demographic, the farmworker rights movement, and future immigration policy.
Country USA
Manufacturer Yale University Press
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber 31 b/w illus.
ReleaseDate 2016-01-05
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780300196962

Grounds for Dreaming: Mexican Americans, Mexican Immigrants, and the California Farmworker Movement (The Lamar Series in Western History)