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Voices from the Fields

Voices from the Fields
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 100
Release: 2001
Genre: Children of migrant laborers
ISBN: 9780439270540

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Photographs, poems, and interviews with children reveal the hardships and hopes of Mexican American migrant farm workers and their families.


Voices from the Fields

Voices from the Fields
Author: S. Beth Atkin
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2008-08-26
Genre:
ISBN: 9781436131797

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Voices from the Fields


Strike!

Strike!
Author: Larry Dane Brimner
Publisher: Astra Publishing House
Total Pages: 174
Release: 2022-09-06
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1635928338

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*Discover the important history of California’s migrant workers and their strike for fair wages during the Delano grape strike in the 1960’s *Learn about Latino civil rights activist César Chávez and Filipino-American labor organizer Larry Itliong *From Sibert award-winning author Larry Dane Brimner Here is the gripping story of the Grape Strike that stirred a nation, as well as the rise of Latino civil rights activist César Chávez and the United Farm Workers of America. In the 1960’s, while the United States was at war and racial tensions were boiling over, Filipino-American workers were demanding fair wages and decent living conditions in California’s vineyards. When the workers walked off the fields in September 1965, the great Delano grape strike began. Did the signing of labor contracts with growers in 1970 mean an end to the problems of the American field laborers, or was it a short-lived truce? This nonfiction book for young readers follows the five-year long strike and also provides details about César Chávez and the United Farm Workers. Award-winning author Larry Dane Brimner’s riveting text, complemented by black-and-white archival photographs and the words of workers, organizers, and growers, tells the powerful history.


With These Hands

With These Hands
Author: Daniel Rothenberg
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 372
Release: 2000-10-30
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780520227347

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"What makes this book so important is that it allows us to see into the lives of those who do the stoop labor to put that lovely salad on our tables. With These Hands is a unique and valuable documentary work that skillfully presents the voices of laborers and others, helping us to understand our connection to the world of America's farmworkers."—Studs Terkel


Gordo

Gordo
Author: Jaime Cortez
Publisher: Grove Press
Total Pages: 145
Release: 2021-08-10
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0802158099

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This debut story collection “masterfully navigates adverse conditions of migrant life while . . . managing to find joy and amusement, love and triumph” (San Francisco Chronicle). Gordo brings readers inside a migrant workers camp near Watsonville, California in the 1970s. At the heart of these interrelated stories is a young, probably gay, boy named Gordo, who must find a way to contend with the notions of manhood imposed on him by his father. As he comes of age, Gordo learns about sex, watches his father’s drunken fights, and discovers even his own documented Mexican-American parents are wary of illegal migrants. We also meet Fat Cookie, high schooler and resident artist who runs away from home one day with her mother’s boyfriend, Manny. And then there are Los Tigres, the twins who show up every season and whose drunken brawl ends with one of them rushed to the emergency room in an upholstered chair tied to the back of a pick-up truck. These scenes from Steinbeck Country are full of humor, family drama, and a sweet frankness about serious questions: Who belongs to America and how are they treated? How does one learn decency when grown adults must fear for their lives and livelihoods? Gordo “announces a vibrant new voice on the literary scene, at once wise and authentic and supremely gifted” (Booklist, starred review). Finalist for the 2022 Lambda Literary Award for Gay Fiction Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction


Reaching for the Stars

Reaching for the Stars
Author: José M. Hernández
Publisher: Center Street
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2012-09-04
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1455522813

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The book that inspired the new film A Million Miles Away. Born into a family of migrant workers, toiling in the fields by the age of six, Jose M. Hernàndez dreamed of traveling through the night skies on a rocket ship. Reaching for the Stars is the inspiring story of how he realized that dream, becoming the first Mexican-American astronaut. Hernàndez didn't speak English till he was 12, and his peers often joined gangs, or skipped school. And yet, by his twenties he was part of an elite team helping develop technology for the early detection of breast cancer. He was turned down by NASA eleven times on his long journey to donning that famous orange space suit. Hernàndez message of hard work, education, perseverance, of "reaching for the stars," makes this a classic American autobiography.


Finding Latinx

Finding Latinx
Author: Paola Ramos
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2020-10-20
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1984899104

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Latinos across the United States are redefining identities, pushing boundaries, and awakening politically in powerful and surprising ways. Many—Afrolatino, indigenous, Muslim, queer and undocumented, living in large cities and small towns—are voices who have been chronically overlooked in how the diverse population of almost sixty million Latinos in the U.S. has been represented. No longer. In this empowering cross-country travelogue, journalist and activist Paola Ramos embarks on a journey to find the communities of people defining the controversial term, “Latinx.” She introduces us to the indigenous Oaxacans who rebuilt the main street in a post-industrial town in upstate New York, the “Las Poderosas” who fight for reproductive rights in Texas, the musicians in Milwaukee whose beats reassure others of their belonging, as well as drag queens, environmental activists, farmworkers, and the migrants detained at our border. Drawing on intensive field research as well as her own personal story, Ramos chronicles how “Latinx” has given rise to a sense of collectivity and solidarity among Latinos unseen in this country for decades. A vital and inspiring work of reportage, Finding Latinx calls on all of us to expand our understanding of what it means to be Latino and what it means to be American. The first step towards change, writes Ramos, is for us to recognize who we are.


Migrant Farm Workers

Migrant Farm Workers
Author: Linda Jacobs Altman
Publisher:
Total Pages: 112
Release: 1994
Genre: Agricultural laborers.
ISBN: 9780531130339

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Discusses the history and economics of migrant labor, describes the impact of the Great Depression, and recounts the efforts of migrant workers to improve their lot through boycotts and strikes


Calling the Doves

Calling the Doves
Author: Juan Felipe Herrera
Publisher: Children's Book Press
Total Pages: 44
Release: 1995
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780892391660

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This bilingual memoir by a celebrated poet paints a vivid picture of his migrant farmworker childhood. Full-color illustrations.