| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 355 pages) : illustrations, maps. |
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text file |
| Series |
Race and ethnicity in the American West
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Race and ethnicity in the American West.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
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 César -- Conclusion -- Notes. |
| Summary |
"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 negotiations long before Chávez led them in marches and active protests. Curious Unions explores the ways in which the Mexican community forged intriguing partnerships with other ethnic groups within Oxnard in the first half of the twentieth century and the resulting economic exchanges, cultural practices, and labor and community activism. Frank P. Barajas examines how the Oxnard ethnic Mexican population exercised its agency in alliance with other groups and organizations to meet their needs before large-scale protests and labor unions were engaged. Curious Unions charts how the cultural negotiations that took place in the Oxnard ethnic Mexican community helped shape and empower farm labor organizing."--Provided by publisher. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Foreign workers, Mexican -- California -- Oxnard -- History.
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Foreign workers, Mexican. |
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California -- Oxnard. |
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History. |
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Mexican Americans -- Civil rights -- California -- Oxnard -- History.
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Mexican Americans -- Civil rights. |
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Labor movement -- California -- Oxnard -- History.
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Labor movement. |
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Mexican Americans -- Cultural assimilation -- California -- Oxnard -- History.
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Mexican Americans -- Cultural assimilation. |
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Mexican Americans. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Barajas, Frank P., 1964- Curious unions. Lincoln, Neb. : University of Nebraska Press, ©2012 9780803237919 (DLC) 2012013286 (OCoLC)785862600 |
| ISBN |
0803244738 (electronic book) |
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9780803244733 (electronic book) |
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9780803237919 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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080323791X (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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