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Corridors of Migration - The Odyssey of Mexican Laborers, 1600-1933 (Paperback)
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Corridors of Migration - The Odyssey of Mexican Laborers, 1600-1933 (Paperback)
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In the San Joaquin Valley Cotton Strike of 1933, frenzied cotton
farmers murdered three strikers, intentionally starved at least
nine infants, wounded dozens of people, and arrested more. While
the story of this incident has been recounted from the perspective
of both the farmers and, more recently, the Mexican workers, this
is the first book to trace the origins of the Mexican workers
activism through their common experience of migrating to the United
States. Rodolfo F. Acuna documents the history of Mexican workers
and their families from seventeenth-century Chihuahua to
twentieth-century California, following their patterns of migration
and describing the establishment of communities in mining and
agricultural regions. He shows the combined influences of racism,
transborder dynamics, and events such as the industrialization of
the Southwest, the Mexican Revolution, and World War I in shaping
the collective experience of these people as they helped to form
the economic, political, and social landscapes of the American
Southwest in their interactions with agribusiness and absentee
copper barons. Acuna follows the steps of one of the murdered
strikers, Pedro Subia, reconstructing the times and places in which
his wave of migrants lived. By balancing the social and geographic
trends in the Mexican population with the story of individual
protest participants, Acuna shows how the strikes were in fact
driven by choices beyond the Mexican workers? control. Their
struggle to form communities graphically retells how these workers
were continuously uprooted and their organizations destroyed by
capital. Corridors of Migration thus documents twentieth-century
Mexican American labor activism from its earliest roots through the
mines of Arizona and the Great San Joaquin Valley cotton strike.
From a founding scholar of Chicano studies and the author of
fifteen books comes the culmination of three decades of dedicated
research into the causes and effects of migration and labor
activism. The narrative documents how Mexican workers formed
communities against all odds.
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