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Farmworker's Daughter: Growing Up Mexican in America
Rose Castillo Guilbault
Heyday Books, 2006
Inspirational Story of Farmworker's Daughter
Teens will be moved and inspired by Rose Castillo Guilbault's memoir, "Farmworker's Daughter: Growing Up Mexican in America" (Heyday Books, $11.95 paperback). The chapters in this richly detailed book arose from a series of essays first published in the San Francisco ...
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Voices from the Fields : Children of Migrant Farmworkers Tell Their Stories
S. Beth Atkin
Little, Brown Young Readers, 2000
Picking into migrant families lives
I have recommended this book to teachers, counselors, therapists, social workers, politicians and law enforcement officials. It takes you inside migrant families lives and lets you share with them their success, sacrifice, and nostalgia. Beth Atkins captures more ...
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The Fruits of Their Labor: Atlantic Coast Farmworkers and the Making of Migrant Poverty, 1870-1945
Cindy Hahamovitch
The University of North Carolina Press, 1997
Raw Deal
Raw Deal
Once in a while you read a book chock full of information you didn't know that you didn't know, or more importantly that you didn't know you needed to know. "The Fruits of Their Labor," by Cindy Hahamovitch, is such a book. The subtitle - Atlantic Coast ...
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Bitter Harvest: A History of California Farmworkers, 1870-1941
Cletus E. Daniel
University of California Press, 1982
Very readable book
This is a very readable book on the California farm workers. Daniel uses an impressive array of primary sources from the period studied to show the powerlessness and misery of California farm workers (whose many problems of the 1930's remain today).
He begins by ...
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Cesar Chavez and the Common Sense of Nonviolence
Jose-Antonio Orosco
University of New Mexico Press, 2008
Cesar Chavez has long been heralded for his personal practice of nonviolent resistance in struggles against social, racial, and labor injustices. However, the works of Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. have long overshadowed Chavez's contributions to the theory of nonviolence. José-Antonio Orosco seeks to elevate Chavez as an original thinker, ...
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Fruit Tramps: A Family of Migrant Farmworkers
Herman Leroy Emmet
Univ of New Mexico Pr, 1989
Fruit Tramps
This is a great modern update of migrant workers from the days of Dorthea Lange. There is such a closeness that is acheived between the photographer and the family. The friendship that developed over eight+ years really comes out in this book and the photographs. ...
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The Farmworkers' Journey
Ann Aurelia Lopez
University of California Press, 2007
Illuminating the dark side of economic globalization, this book gives a rare insider's view of the migrant farmworkers' binational circuit that stretches from the west central Mexico countryside to central California. Over the course of ten years, Ann Aurelia López conducted a series of intimate interviews with farmworkers and their families along ...
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Cesar Chavez: Fighting for Farmworkers (Graphic Library: Graphic Biographies)
Eric Braun
Capstone Press, 2006
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The Fight in the Fields: Cesar Chavez and the Farmworkers Movement
Susan Ferriss, Ricardo Sandoval, ...
Harvest/HBJ Book, 1998
Cesar Chavez Merits a National Holiday !
"The Fight in the Fields" compelled me to recognize that Cesar Chavez is arguably the greatest humanitarian in US history. He tirelessly and peacefully campaigned on behalf of underpaid and overworked farmworkers and migrants who were forced to toil amidst toxic ...
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With These Hands: The Hidden World of Migrant Farmworkers Today
Daniel Rothenberg
University of California Press, 2000
This is a fine, very readable book about migrant farmworkers
With These Hands is an excellent book that contains oral histories -- astonishing interviews -- with farmworkers, growers, labor contractors, government officials and labor union officials. These statements are interspersed with excellent but brief summaries of ...
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Philip Vera Cruz: A Personal History of Filipino Immigrants and the Farmworkers Movement
Craig Scharlin, Lilia V. Villanueva
University of Washington Press, 2000
Correcting History and Common Sense Understanding
An very intimate portrait of his struggle as a new immigrant, farm worker and then later activist, Philip Vera Cruz honors us with his reflections in `Philip Vera Cruz: A Personal History of Filipino Immigrants and the Farmworkers Movement.' Authored by Scharlin and ...
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Everyone Had Cameras: Photography and Farmworkers in California, 1850-2000
Richard Steven Street
Univ Of Minnesota Press, 2008
American photographers have been fascinated by the lives of California farmworkers since the time of the daguerreotype. From the earliest Gold Rush–era images and the documentary photographs taken during the Great Depression to digital images today, photographers and farmworkers in California have had a complicated and continuously changing ...
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Cesar Chavez: La Lucha Por Los Trabajadores Del Campo/Fighting for Farmworkers (Biografias Graficas/Graphic ...
Eric Braun
Capstone Press, 2006
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Espejos y Ventanas / Mirrors and Windows: Oral Histories of Mexican Farmworkers and Their Families
New City Community Press, 2004
The stories of Mexican immigrants in their own words
This book should be required reading for anyone interested in the immigration debate that is raging in our country today. Espejos y Ventanas gives Mexican immigrants the chance to tell their stories of struggle in their own words. The Spanish is not too difficult to ...
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Dark Harvest: Migrant Farmworkers in America
Brent K. Ashabranner
Linnet Books, 1997
I recommend this book very highly. Juan Medina
I am very honored to have been a part of this book I have been able to share it with my children and in my feild of work with migrant students in a sense that inspiers them and to modevate them to continiue their education with their heads up high. The book is ...
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