... Community Service Organization CSO Huerta Dolores National Farm Workers Association NFWA Padilla Gilbert Gil student activism Uranday Esther AFL CIO —life conditions Gines Ben Imutan Andy Imutan Luming Manuel Pete Reyes Rudy Vera Cruz Philip citizenship based politics —1966 AWOC NFWA Delano...

... and Alcohol Producers unions Collor de Mello Fernando Earth Summit neoliberalism Environmentalism Pollution Farm waste Ethanol Environmental policy “The rivers are polluted, they destroyed everything.” The mayor of the northern São Paulo city of Sertãozinho struck an apocalyptic tone at the Forum...

...This chapter argues that Hamer’s Freedom Farm creatively worked to survive the double afterlife of slavery: both the burden and denial of legal personhood. The chapter offers the concept of pluripresence, a simultaneous inhabitance of different spaces and times, to clarify both the all-at-once...

... ” Women Cars Martínez Rafael Lindsay Calif Prostitutes Caló Border Industrialization Program BIP Foreign investment Andreas Peter Immigration and Naturalization Service INS Operation Wetback San José Calif Rio Oso Calif Tourism Migration Migrant labor Gender Permanent Residency Farm work...

...Chapter 4 continues the exploration of intense debate within Chicano Movement circles over the immigration issue through analysis of differing positions among Raza Sí, Migra No activists and Chicano Democrats who were deeply influenced by the popular United Farm Workers (UFW). Beginning...

... something about their poverty. The agency that would take up their cause was the Resettlement Administration and its successor, the Farm Security Administration (FSA). The FSA's mission was to serve the nation's poorest rural people, including those excluded from or further impoverished...

... systems of white supremacy embedded in the food system. DBCFSN’s most well-known projects – the Detroit Food Policy Council, D-Town Farm, and the Ujamaa Food Buying Club – enact the strategies of prefigurative politics, economic autonomy, and commons as praxis to build collective agency and community...

...While Olivares enjoyed the life of being a key administrator of his order, this changed in 1975 when he underwent his “conversion.” That year he met César Chávez, the famed farm worker leader.Meeting Chávez changed Olivares’ life. He reexamined his role and concluded that he now needed to work...

...This chapter describes the battle between the Federals and Confederates on Foster's farm. The Federals suffered as many as 30 killed, 36 wounded, and 20 missing. Roughly 60 percent of the casualties came from the ranks of the 3rd Iowa Cavalry. Confederate losses, as always, were problematical...

... farm families in the past, that does not, however, translate into conjugal farming teams organized identically. The conjugal role structure that ethnic groups share derives from beliefs about farming and gender roles, including marriage based on a love choice, the division of labor on family farms...

...This chapter discusses the land tenure system, which is constituted by how a group values, transfers, buys, or sells land. Without access to land, whether through ownership or rental, a family cannot farm. This means that landowners control a farm community's most valued commodity and that a land...

... a contract with one grower, while important, simply represented just the first step for the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee (UFWOC). American Friends Service Committee AFSC Boycotts economic in Chicago California Chavez Cesar Eaton Eleanor King Martin Luther Jr Memphis Tenn Nonviolent...

...The final chapter turns to settlement, farming and home-making in British Canada; the politically charged, northern-most territory of the British Atlantic world. Focusing on the farmhouses and small-town houses built and occupied by the two dominant immigrant groups in late eighteenth to early...

... his career. The chapter describes Golden’s work at the Charlotte Labor Journal and Dixie Farm News which became popular within Charlotte’s Jewish community, due to his anti-discrimination articles. The community’s members became the first subscribers of the Carolina Israelite...

...Edna Lewis (1916-2006) wrote some of America's most resonant, lyrical, and significant cookbooks, including the now classic The Taste of Country Cooking. Lewis cooked and wrote as a means to explore her memories of childhood on a farm in Freetown, Virginia, a community first founded by black...

...This book consolidates, refines, advances and grounds recent scholarship that challenges familiar platitudes about family farming and rural life in the United States. Its approach yields a depth of information about farming culture not usually found in the literature on rural America. The book...

...Since the United Farm Worker (UFW) movement began its campaign to unionize California’s grape workers in 1965, it has held the public’s imagination. And yet, little is known about the UFW’s multi-racial members or their role in reshaping California’s agribusiness and rural communities...

...This chapter presents agricultural folklore that says that for a man to enter farming he must either inherit land or marry it. The grass roots wisdom about farming entry acknowledges that a family farm is produced by multiple generations and that succession of a father by a son forms a single link...

...This chapter discusses the decision to import workers during the Second World War and how it shaped the course of farm labor history over the next fifty years. In the aftermath of the war, Puerto Rican farmworkers replaced Italians in New Jersey and New York. In Florida, Bahamians and Jamaicans...

... cooperatives and community organizations. Operating on a regional scale within Mississippi, the North Bolivar County Farm Cooperative used agriculture as a strategy of self-determination and self-reliance, offering farmer-members an alternative to participation in the regional economy that was controlled...