Curious unions : Mexican American workers and resistance in Oxnard, California, 1898-1961 / Frank P. Barajas.
"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 campai...
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University of Nebraska Press,
©2012.
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| Series: | Race and ethnicity in the American West.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.