Curious Unions
Mexican American Workers and Resistance in Oxnard, California, 1898–1961
Seiten
2021
University of Nebraska Press (Verlag)
9781496229038 (ISBN)
University of Nebraska Press (Verlag)
9781496229038 (ISBN)
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) that 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.
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.
Frank P. Barajas is a professor of history at California State University Channel Islands. He is the author of Mexican Americans with Moxie: A Transgenerational History of El Movimiento Chicano in Ventura County, California, 1945–1975 (Nebraska, 2021).
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
1. Early Curious Unions
2. The (Re)Creation of Community
3. Segregated Integration
4. Bitter Repression, Sweet Resistance, and Cross-Cultural Unions
5. The Emerging Mexican (American)
6. Creating CÉsar
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 02.11.2021 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Race and Ethnicity in the American West |
| Zusatzinfo | 30 photographs, 1 map, 1 table |
| Verlagsort | Lincoln |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika |
| Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Regional- / Landesgeschichte | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-13 | 9781496229038 / 9781496229038 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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