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Grounds for Dreaming: Mexican Americans, Mexican Immigrants, and the California Farmworker Movement

Grounds for Dreaming: Mexican Americans, Mexican Immigrants, and the California Farmworker Movement

History > Latin America - General
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  • Yale University Press
  • Paperback
  • 9780300240146
  • 9.2 X 6 X 0.8 inches
  • 0.95 pounds
  • History > Latin America - General
  • (Single Author) Asian American
  • English
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Known as The Salad Bowl of the World, California's Salinas Valley became an agricultural empire due to the toil of diverse farmworkers, including Latinos. A sweeping critical history of how Mexican Americans and Mexican immigrants organized for their rights in the decades leading up to the seminal strikes led by Cesar Chavez, this important work also looks closely at how different groups of Mexicans--U.S. born, bracero, and undocumented--confronted and interacted with one another during this period.

An incisive study of labor, migration, race, gender, citizenship, and class, Lori Flores's first book offers crucial insights for today's ever-growing U.S. Latino demographic, the farmworker rights movement, and future immigration policy.

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Author Bio

I am Associate Professor of History at Stony Brook University and teach classes in U.S. Latino/x, labor, immigration, and food history, as well as U.S.-Mexico and global borderlands history.

I was born and raised in a small town in south Texas, and never traveled far from home until I decided to attend Yale University against my parents’ wishes. To make the journey, I earned as many scholarships as I could and held multiple work-study jobs. During my sophomore year, I took my first class in Mexican American history, and fell in love with the subject. 

I pursued my doctorate in history at Stanford University, received my Ph.D. in 2011, and enjoyed a postdoctoral fellowship at Bowdoin College before entering my current position.

My award-winning first book, Grounds for Dreaming: Mexican Americans, Mexican Immigrants, and the California Farmworker Movement (Yale University Press, 2016), analyzes the relationships between Mexican Americans, bracero guestworkers, and undocumented immigrants in their struggles for civil and labor rights in California’s Salinas Valley from the 1940s to the present. 

I am also the co-editor of the anthology The Academic’s Handbook (Duke University Press, 2020) and currently writing a new book on the history of Latino/x food workers in the U.S. Northeast from 1940 to the present day.

I have received fellowships for my research and writing from the Russell Sage Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center, the Huntington Library, and the Beinecke Library. I am also a proud Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship alumna.

When I’m not writing or teaching, I spend my time running, kayaking, and taking photos of beautiful places.

 

Source: www.loriaflores.com Photo Credit: Ananda Shorey

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