Research Catalog

Title

Memory, community, and activism : Mexican migration and labor in the Pacific Northwest / Jerry Garcia and Gilberto Garcia, editors.

Publication

East Lansing, Mich. : JSRI Books ; Distributed by Michigan State University Press, c2005.

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Additional Authors

• García, Jerry, 1963-
• García, Gilberto.

Description

iii, 335 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Subject

• Mexican American agricultural laborers > Northwest, Pacific > History
• Agricultural laborers, Foreign > Northwest, Pacific > History
• Mexicans > Northwest, Pacific > History
• Immigrants > Northwest, Pacific > History

Genre/Form

• History
• History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction / 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 -- Mexican and Japanese labor in the Pacific Northwest, 1900-1945 / Jerry Garcia -- Race, labor, and getting out the harvest : The Bracero Program in World War II Hood River, Oregon / 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 -- Mexicanos 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 in the Pacific Northwest / Gilberto Garcia.

ISBN

0870137700

OCLC

63149497

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library