
Grounds for Dreaming Mexican Americans, Mexican Immigrants, and the California Farmworker Movement Lori A. Flores
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- Series:
- The Lamar Series in Western History
- Format:
- Paperback
- Publication date:
- 10 Jul 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780300240146
- Imprint:
- Yale University Press
- Dimensions:
- 304 pages: 235 x 156 x 25mm
- Illustrations:
- 31 b-w illus.
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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.
Won an Honorable Mention from the Western Association of Women Historians', Gita Chaudhuri Book Award.
Winner of the 2016 International Latino Book Awards in the Best History Book category.
Won the Immigration and Ethnic History Society Best First Book Award 2017.
Won the 2017 Martin Ridge Award from the Historical Society of Southern California, which honors the best book on California history that emphasizes the twentieth century onward.
“The place long celebrated as America’s salad bowl reveals itself in Lori Flores’s eloquent and deeply researched account to be an unusually potent vantage point from which to assess not only the forces behind much of our food production but also the making of American ideas of race and community, and our capacity for reform and social justice. Grounds for Dreaming represents the debut of an important new voice in American history."—Karl Jacoby, Columbia University
"A beautifully crafted community history that underscores the significance of rural lives, especially Mexican lives, to California and the nation. With a vibrant grace, Flores chronicles the people and events that made Salinas a crucible for farm labor relations."—Vicki L. Ruiz, University of California, Irvine
"This terrific study of California's all-important Salinas Valley is the first to capture that region’s history from the 1930s into the 1990s. Beautifully written and researched, it will be indispensable for general readers and for scholars interested in Western agriculture, civil rights movements, and Latino history."—Stephen Pitti, Yale University
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