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Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 722
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Clearinghouse Review
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Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 722
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Publisher:
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Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 722
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Migrant and Seasonal Farmworker Housing in the United States
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking, Finance, and Urban Affairs. Subcommittee on Housing and Community Development
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 844
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 844
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The Colonias Reader
Author: Angela J. Donelson
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 081653487X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 297
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The colonias of the U.S.–Mexico border form a loose network of more than 2,500 settlements, ranging in size from villages to cities, that are home to over a million people. While varying in size, all share common features: wrenching poverty, substandard housing, and public health issues approaching crisis levels. This book brings together scholars, professionals, and activists from a wide range of disciplines to examine the pressing issues of economic development, housing and community development, and public and environmental health in colonias of the four U.S.–Mexico border states. The Colonias Reader is the first book to present such a broad overview of these communities, offering a glimpse into life in the colonias and the circumstances that allow them to continue to exist—and even grow—in persistent poverty. The contributors document the depth of existing problems in each state and describe how government agencies, nongovernmental organizations, and community activists have mobilized resources to overcome obstacles to progress. More than reporting problems and documenting programs, the book provides conceptual frameworks that tie poverty to institutional and class-based conflicts, and even challenges the very basis of colonia designations. Most of these contributions move beyond portraying border residents as hapless victims of discrimination and racism, showing instead their devotion to improving their own living conditions through grassroots organizing and community leadership. These contributions show that, despite varying degrees of success, all colonia residents aspire to a livable wage, safe and decent housing, and basic health care. The Colonias Reader showcases many situations in which these people have organized to fulfill these ambitions and provides new insight into life along the border.
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 081653487X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
The colonias of the U.S.–Mexico border form a loose network of more than 2,500 settlements, ranging in size from villages to cities, that are home to over a million people. While varying in size, all share common features: wrenching poverty, substandard housing, and public health issues approaching crisis levels. This book brings together scholars, professionals, and activists from a wide range of disciplines to examine the pressing issues of economic development, housing and community development, and public and environmental health in colonias of the four U.S.–Mexico border states. The Colonias Reader is the first book to present such a broad overview of these communities, offering a glimpse into life in the colonias and the circumstances that allow them to continue to exist—and even grow—in persistent poverty. The contributors document the depth of existing problems in each state and describe how government agencies, nongovernmental organizations, and community activists have mobilized resources to overcome obstacles to progress. More than reporting problems and documenting programs, the book provides conceptual frameworks that tie poverty to institutional and class-based conflicts, and even challenges the very basis of colonia designations. Most of these contributions move beyond portraying border residents as hapless victims of discrimination and racism, showing instead their devotion to improving their own living conditions through grassroots organizing and community leadership. These contributions show that, despite varying degrees of success, all colonia residents aspire to a livable wage, safe and decent housing, and basic health care. The Colonias Reader showcases many situations in which these people have organized to fulfill these ambitions and provides new insight into life along the border.
Farm Worker Futurism
Author: Curtis Marez
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 1452951659
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 227
Book Description
When we think of literature and film about farm workers, The Grapes of Wrath may come to mind, but Farm Worker Futurism reveals that the historical role of technology, especially new media, has in fact had much more to do with depicting the lives of farm laborers—Mexican migrants in particular—in the United States. From the late 1940s, when Ernesto Galarza led a strike in the San Joaquin Valley, to the early 1990s, when the United Farm Workers (UFW) helped organize a fast in solidarity with janitors at Apple Computers in the Santa Clara Valley, this book explores the friction between agribusiness and farm workers through the lens of visual culture. Marez looks at how the appropriation of photography, film, video, and other media technologies expressed a “farm worker futurism,” a set of farm worker social formations that faced off against corporate capitalism and government policies. In addition to drawing fascinating links between the worlds envisioned in UFW videos on the one hand and visions of Cold War geopolitics on the other, he demonstrates how union cameras and computer screens put the farm worker movement in dialogue with futurist thinking and speculative fictions of all sorts, including the films of George Lucas and the art of Ester Hernandez. Finally Marez examines the legacy of farm worker futurism in recent cinema and literature, contemporary struggles for immigrant rights, management–labor conflicts in computer hardware production, and the antiprison movement. In contrast with cultural histories of technology that take a top-down perspective, Farm Worker Futurism tells the story from below, showing how working-class people of color have often been early adopters and imaginative users of new media. In doing so, it presents a completely novel analysis of speculative fiction’s engagements with the farm worker movement in ways that illuminate both.
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 1452951659
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 227
Book Description
When we think of literature and film about farm workers, The Grapes of Wrath may come to mind, but Farm Worker Futurism reveals that the historical role of technology, especially new media, has in fact had much more to do with depicting the lives of farm laborers—Mexican migrants in particular—in the United States. From the late 1940s, when Ernesto Galarza led a strike in the San Joaquin Valley, to the early 1990s, when the United Farm Workers (UFW) helped organize a fast in solidarity with janitors at Apple Computers in the Santa Clara Valley, this book explores the friction between agribusiness and farm workers through the lens of visual culture. Marez looks at how the appropriation of photography, film, video, and other media technologies expressed a “farm worker futurism,” a set of farm worker social formations that faced off against corporate capitalism and government policies. In addition to drawing fascinating links between the worlds envisioned in UFW videos on the one hand and visions of Cold War geopolitics on the other, he demonstrates how union cameras and computer screens put the farm worker movement in dialogue with futurist thinking and speculative fictions of all sorts, including the films of George Lucas and the art of Ester Hernandez. Finally Marez examines the legacy of farm worker futurism in recent cinema and literature, contemporary struggles for immigrant rights, management–labor conflicts in computer hardware production, and the antiprison movement. In contrast with cultural histories of technology that take a top-down perspective, Farm Worker Futurism tells the story from below, showing how working-class people of color have often been early adopters and imaginative users of new media. In doing so, it presents a completely novel analysis of speculative fiction’s engagements with the farm worker movement in ways that illuminate both.
Report of the Commission on Agricultural Workers: Executive summary of the report of the Commission on Agricultural Workers
Author: United States. Commission on Agricultural Workers
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Category : Agricultural laborers
Languages : en
Pages : 28
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Category : Agricultural laborers
Languages : en
Pages : 28
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Report of the Commission on Agricultural Workers
Author: United States. Commission on Agricultural Workers
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Category : Agricultural laborers
Languages : en
Pages : 234
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Category : Agricultural laborers
Languages : en
Pages : 234
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CIS US Congressional Committee Hearings Index: 86th Congress-88th Congress, 1959-1964 (5 v.)
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 940
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 940
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Farmers Home Administration Housing Authorizations
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. Subcommittee on Rural Housing
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Category : Housing, Rural
Languages : en
Pages : 346
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Category : Housing, Rural
Languages : en
Pages : 346
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Migrant and Seasonal Farmworker Powerlessness: A-B. Farmworker legal problems. 2 v
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare. Subcommittee on Migratory Labor
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 804
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 804
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Oversight on Rural Housing Programs, Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Housing and Urban Affairs of ..., 93-2 ..., Novemeber 19, 20, and 21, 1974
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 384
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Languages : en
Pages : 384
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