Latinx Encounters How Mexicans, Mexican Americans, and Puerto Ricans Made the Modern Midwest

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Latinx Encounters How Mexicans, Mexican Americans, and Puerto Ricans Made the Modern Midwest | 19.54 MB

Title: Latinx Encounters How Mexicans, Mexican Americans, and Puerto Ricans Made the Modern Midwest
Author: Juan Ignacio Mora
Category: Labour & Industrial Relations, Ethnic Studies, United States
Language: English | 224 Pages | ISBN: 9781469693866

Description:
The fields and orchards of the Midwest have offered seasonal agricultural work for countless Latinx migrant laborers. For more than a century, Mexican, Mexican American, and Puerto Rican migrants converged in the heartland to perform some of the most grueling labor needed to sustain the region's vital agribusiness. In return, they were rewarded with dismal working conditions, poor government protections, and fierce hostility toward their organizing efforts. Juan Ignacio Mora uncovers the everyday strategies these migratory laborers employed to fight for better economic conditions, offering a new history of the farmworker justice movement that transforms our understanding of the US heartland.
Mexican, Mexican American, and Puerto Rican migrants arrived in the Midwest with vastly different circumstances of class, ethnicity, and immigration status, which fueled complex collaborations and conflicts. Contested notions of race challenged their relationships, but migrant...

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