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44) Esperanza renace
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
Español
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Description
Esperanza and her mother are forced to leave their life of wealth and privilege in Mexico to go work in the labor camps of Southern California, where they must adapt to the harsh circumstances facing Mexican farm workers on the eve of the Great Depression. Esperanza Ortega has a wonderful life in Mexico until tragedy shatters her dream and forces her and her mother to flee to California and settle in a Mexican farm labor camp.
Author
Publisher
Verso
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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Description
"A dramatic new history of Cesar Chavez and the rise and fall of the United Farm Workers. The slogan "Yes we can"--in the form "¡Sí Se Puede!"--doesn't originate with Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign. It goes back more than four decades to the heyday of the United Farm Workers, an organization that at its height won many labor victories, secured collective bargaining rights for California farm workers and became a major voice for the Latino...
52) A migrant family
Author
Publisher
Lerner Publications
Pub. Date
c1992
Language
English
Description
Portrays the life of twelve-year-old Juan Medina and his family, migrant workers living in Encinitas, California.
53) Mexican workers and American dreams: immigration, repatriation, and California farm labor, 1900-1939
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Publisher
Rutgers University Press
Pub. Date
c1994
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
1977
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
Description
Presents the complete text of the 1939 epic about the Great Depression and includes a collection of critical and contextual essays.
The classic tale of the Joad family and their struggles to survive in the 1930's dust bowl conditions of a whole generation of farmers, who went to California to seek a better life.
Author
Publisher
Cafe con Leche
Pub. Date
2016
Language
Español
Description
Part memoir, part informed commentary on farm labor, the U.S. labor movement, and the political economy of agriculture, Lettuce Wars is a lively account written from the perspective of the fields. Neuburger portrays the people he encountered - immigrant workers, fellow radicals, company bosses, cops and goons - vividly and indelibly, lending a human aspect to the conflict between capital and labor as it played out in the fields of California. --Publisher's...
58) The employment of Mexican workers in U.S. agriculture, 1900-1960: a binational economic analysis
Author
Publisher
R and E Research Associates
Pub. Date
1972]
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Distributed by Cinema Guild
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
The story of Cesar Chavez, founder of the National Farm Workers Association, which later became the United Farm Workers. Examines the grape and lettuce boycotts and the non-violent movements of the 1960s and 1970s; these confronted conservative politicians and the Teamsters Union and inspired Chicano activism. Uses archival footage, newsreels, and contemporary interviews with activists, politicians, and Chavez family members.
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