Memory, Community and Activism
Mexican Migration and Labor in the Pacific Northwest
Will be published approx. on 15. December 2005
Book
Paperback/Softback
335 pages
978-0-87013-770-9 (ISBN)
Description
Memory, Community, and Activism is the first book-length study to critically examine the Mexican experience in the U.S. Pacific Northwest. Many books deal with Chicano history, but few ever attempt to interpret or analyze it beyond the confines of the American Southwest. Eleven essays by leading scholars on the Mexican experience in the Northwest shed new light on immigration/migration, the Bracero program, the Catholic Church, race and race relations, Mexican culture, unionization, and Chicana feminism. This collection analyzes the Mexican experience from the early twentieth century to the present.
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Language
English
Place of publication
East Lansing, MI
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
references
Dimensions
Height: 227 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 21 mm
Weight
562 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-87013-770-9 (9780870137709)
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Persons
Jerry Garcia is an Assistant Professor of History and Chicano/Latino Studies and an Associate Research Scholar with the Julian Samora Research Institute at Michigan State University. He is co-editor of The Illusion of Borders: The National Presence of Mexicanos in the United States. Gilberto Garcia is a Professor of Chicano Studies at Eastern Washington University and co-editor of The Illusion of Borders: The National Presence of Mexicanos in the United States and The Chicano Experience in the Northwest.
Content
* Beyond the Spanish Moment: Mexicans in the Pacific Northwest, Jerry Garcia; * Northwest and the Conquest of the Americas: Chicana/o Roots of Cultural Hybridity and Presence, Ramon Sanchez; * A Long Struggle: Mexican Farmworkers in Idaho, 1918-1935, Errol Jones and Kathleen R. Hodges; * The Racialization of Mexican and Japanese Labor in the Pacific Northwest, Jerry Garcia; * Race, Labor, and Getting Out the Harvest: The Bracero Program in World War II Hood River, Johanna Ogden; * Mexican American and Dust Bowl Farmworkers in the Yakima Valley: A History of the Crewport Farm Labor Camp, 1940-1970, Mario Compean; * El Sarape Mural of Toppenish: Unfolding the Yakima Valley's Bracero Legacy, Margaret Villanueva; * Testimonio de un Tejano en Oregon: Contratista Julian Ruiz, Carlos S. Maldonado; * Mexicans and the Catholic Church in Eastern Washington: The Spokane Diocese, 1956-1997, Gilberto Garcia; * "As Close to God as One Can Get": Rosalinda Guillen, a Mexicana Farmworker Organizer in Washington State, Maria Cuevas; * Past, Present, and Future Directions: Chicana/o Studies Research in the Pacific Northwest, Gilberto Garcia.