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Of Forests and Fields - Mexican Labor in the Pacific Northwest (Paperback)
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Of Forests and Fields - Mexican Labor in the Pacific Northwest (Paperback)
Series: Latinidad: Transnational Cultures in the United States
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Just looking at the Pacific Northwest's many verdant forests and
fields, it may be hard to imagine the intense work it took to
transform the region into the agricultural powerhouse it is today.
Much of this labor was provided by Mexican guest workers, Tejano
migrants, and undocumented immigrants, who converged on the region
beginning in the mid-1940s. Of Forests and Fields tells the story
of these workers, who toiled in the fields, canneries, packing
sheds, and forests, turning the Pacific Northwest into one of the
most productive agricultural regions in the country. Employing an
innovative approach that traces the intersections between Chicana/o
labor and environmental history, Mario Sifuentez shows how ethnic
Mexican workers responded to white communities that only welcomed
them when they were economically useful, then quickly shunned them.
He vividly renders the feelings of isolation and desperation that
led to the formation of ethnic Mexican labor organizations like the
Pineros y Campesinos Unidos Noroeste (PCUN) farm workers union,
which fought back against discrimination and exploitation. Of
Forests and Fields not only extends the scope of Mexican labor
history beyond the Southwest, it offers valuable historical
precedents for understanding the struggles of immigrant and migrant
laborers in our own era. Sifuentez supplements his extensive
archival research with a unique set of first-hand interviews,
offering new perspectives on events covered in the printed
historical record. A descendent of ethnic Mexican immigrant
laborers in Oregon, Sifuentez also poignantly demonstrates the
links between the personal and political, as his research leads him
to amazing discoveries about his own family history.
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