Esperanza and her mother are forced to leave their life of wealth and privilege in Mexico to go work in the labor camps of Southern California, where they must adapt to the harsh circumstances facing Mexican farm workers on the eve of the ...

Gregory reaches into the migrants' lives to reveal both their economic trials and their impact on California's culture and society.

A model of the best of American history and, especially, studies of Asian American history and race and ethnicity."—Journal of American Ethnic History "These larger questions about race and labor are relevant not only for understanding ...

The volume stands as a classic on labor issues and class struggle and still echoes with the haunting plea of the dispossessed for equity.

We are convinced that this is exactly what would happen at this particular bus stop on this particular night; we see, again, that violence in the big city is as much a child of ennui as of anger.

"Dust Bowl refugee Gloria Mae Willard finds herself uprooted and working on a California peach orchard, where she tries to join the secret, all-boys baseball team that she's desperate to play on"--

Camille Guerin-Gonzales tells the story of their migration, their years here, and of the repatriation program--one of the largest mass removal operations ever sanctioned by the U.S. government.

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