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Grounds for Dreaming

Mexican Americans, Mexican Immigrants, and the California Farmworker Movement

Grounds for Dreaming( )
Author: Flores, Lori A.
Series title:The Lamar Series in Western History Ser.
ISBN:978-0-300-24014-6
Publication Date:Jul 2018
Publisher:Yale University Press
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:AUD $51.95
Book Description:

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...
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Book Details
Pages:304
Detailed Subjects: Social Science / Agriculture & Food
Social Science / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / American / Hispanic & Latino Studies
Political Science / International Relations / General
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):15.558 x 23.495 x 2.54 cm
Book Weight:0.386 Kilograms



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