UID:
edocfu_9959227109202883
Format:
1 online resource (373 p.)
ISBN:
1-283-71660-7
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0-8032-4473-8
Series Statement:
Race and ethnicity in the American West
Content:
César E. Chávez came to Oxnard, California, in 1958, twenty years after he lived briefly in the city as a child with his migrant farmworker family during the Great Depression. This time Chávez returned as the organizer of the Community Service Organization to support the unionization campaign of the United Packinghouse Workers of America. Together the two groups challenged the agricultural industry's use of braceros (imported contract laborers) who displaced resident farmworkers.The Mexican and Mexican American populations in Oxnard were involved in cultural struggles and negotiation
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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List of illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- List of abbreviations -- Introduction -- Early curious unions -- The (re)creation of community -- Segregated integration -- Bitter repression, sweet resistance, and cross-cultural unions -- The emerging Mexican (American) -- Creating Cesar -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-8032-3791-X
Language:
English
