Corridors of Migration The Odyssey of Mexican Laborers, 1600-1933

Name: Corridors of Migration The Odyssey of Mexican Laborers, 1600-1933
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ISBN: 9780816528028

ISBN-10: 0816528020

ISBN-13: 9780816528028

Edition: 2nd 2008

Authors: Rodolfo F. Acuï¿½a, Rodolfo F. Acuï¿½a

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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. Acua 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…

Book details

List price: $35.00
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Publication date: 8/21/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 430
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Preface


Acknowledgments



Why Mexicans Moved



The Passing of the Saints



The Mesilla Corridor



The Sonoran Corridor



Corridors, Convergence, and Community



Becoming Mexican



Mexican Miners



The Mexican Revolution



To the Other Side of La Linea



The Great Copper Wars



The Cotton Corridor



The San Joaquin Valley Cotton Strike of 1933



Bitter Warfare



La Mula No Nacio Arisca


Abbreviations


Notes


Sources Cited


Index