...This chapter argues that the Bracero Program, begun as an international agreement between the US and Mexico to fill agricultural labor shortages during World War II, served as a way for agricultural interests in the rest of the nation to recreate the labor supply conditions enjoyed by the growers...

... Nations masculinist discourse Bagdasarian Richard Bracero Program Cahuilla reservation s date industry dates Coachella Valley Farmers Association Coachella Valley Submarine newspaper Japanese Americans Mission Indian Federation MIF racism racial discrimination Silva Alvino South Asian...

... education bilingual Indio California Bracero Program Coachella Valley High School —working conditions police Progresista Lodge PL Arizona Coachella City Council Democratic Party Indigenous Nations Mexican American Political Association MAPA Neely Louise settler colonialism Voters League VL...

... Hernández Marcelo Ocampo Ramón Olazábal Francisco Peña José Pérez Ysidro Reta Emeterio Rodríguez Aurelio Rodríguez Juan Torres Cayetano United Pentecostal Church Constitution Apostolic Assembly and Iglesia Apostólica 1950 García Canuto Jr Morales Daniel Pacifism World War II Bracero program...

...At the beginning of World War II, the United States and Mexico launched the bracero program, a series of labor agreements that brought Mexican men to work temporarily in U.S. agricultural fields. This book asks why these temporary migrants provoked so much concern and anxiety in the United States...

...' and families' firsthand accounts of displacement during the Great Repatriation and to periodical accounts and other testimonials about religious life and movement during the guestworker Bracero program era, and tracing how a vibrant religious music culture tied transnational communities together, Ramírez...