Source: “Colonia Park Crowd Hears Vow By United Farm Workers Leader,” The Press-Courier, 2 Jun 1974.
Since 2008 to the present, numerous of new books have been published on Mexican farmworkers, the Bracero Program, the UFW, and Cesar Chavez. Each book re-defining or debating the history or legacy of those events or individuals.
Here is a short list of books:
Shaw, Beyond the Fields: Cesar Chavez, the UFW, and the Struggle for Justice in the 21st Century
Ganz, Why David Sometimes Wins: Leadership, Organization, and Strategy in the California Farm Worker Movement
Bardacke, Trampling Out the Vintage: Cesar Chavez and the Two Souls of the United Farm Workers
Pawel, The Union of Their Dreams: Power, Hope, and Struggle in Cesar Chavez’s Farm Worker Movement
Cohen, Braceros: Migrant Citizens and Transnational Subjects in the Postwar United States and Mexico
Valdes, Organized Agriculture and the Labor Movement before the UFW: Puerto Rico, Hawai’i, California
Garcia, From the Jaws of Victory: The Triumph and Tragedy of Cesar Chavez and the Farm Worker Movement
Mitchell, They Saved the Crops: Labor, Landscape, and the Struggle over Industrial Farming in Bracero-Era California
Barajas, Curious Unions: Mexican American Workers and Resistance in Oxnard, California, 1898-1961
Also, I have included two interviews on the re-defining of the legacy of Chavez and the UFW by Frank Bardacke and Matt Garcia.
Vintage Chavez
Cesar Chavez, the late Chicano labor leader, has been elevated to the status of icon, but few know the rich history from which the United Farm Workers sprang. Host Maria Hinojosa speaks with author Frank Bardacke about the complex relationship between the leader and the rank and file farm workers, as documented in his book Trampling out the Vintage: Cesar Chavez and the Two Souls of the United Farm Workers.50 Years On, Reconsidering Cesar Chavez
Fifty years after Cesar Chavez created a farm workers union, President Obama dedicated the labor leader’s home as a national monument. But a new book calls Chavez a “tragic hero.” Matt Garcia wrote From the Jaws of Victory: The Triumph and Tragedy of Cesar Chavez and the Farm Worker Movement, and he speaks with guest host Celeste Headlee.
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