{"id":1399,"date":"2015-05-31T20:29:25","date_gmt":"2015-06-01T03:29:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/luishmoreno.com\/?p=1399"},"modified":"2019-06-10T14:06:22","modified_gmt":"2019-06-10T21:06:22","slug":"the-farmers-narrative-agricultural-industrial-complex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/luishmoreno.com\/?p=1399","title":{"rendered":"The Farmers\u2019 Narrative = The Agricultural Industrial Complex!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Oxnard’s Heritage Square (2015). Courtesy of the author\u2019s photo collection.<\/p><\/div>\n

I\u2019m spending the whole summer in Chiques<\/em><\/strong> (Oxnard) with my family. Every morning or evening, I walk around downtown, and I reflect on the importance of the geography (space) of La Colonia<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

This community was constructed by city policies of segregating the Mexican population from other ethnic groups, but especially from the White population. Even as this community was formed as a barrier, which limited their access to a decent education, housing, and a job, this community embraced the location as their own.<\/p>\n

In other words, La Colonia<\/em><\/strong> became a location of struggles. One of my goals this summer is to conduct more research and writing on my manuscript, Searching for Memories in La Colonia: Migration, Labor, and Activism In Oxnard, California, 1930-1980<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n

As I work on this manuscript, my focus is to examine the struggles of migration, labor, and activism but to challenge the traditional history of the city, especially the farmers\u2019 narrative<\/em><\/strong>. Or as noted by historian Frank Barajas<\/a>, those narratives<\/em><\/strong> are connected to the agricultural industrial complex<\/strong><\/em> in Ventura County, which continues to be reconstructed over and over by local<\/strong><\/em> museums and amateur<\/em><\/strong> historians!<\/p>\n

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I\u2019m spending the whole summer in Chiques (Oxnard) with my family. Every morning or evening, I walk around downtown, and I reflect on the importance of the geography (space) of La Colonia. This community was constructed by city policies of segregating the Mexican population from other ethnic groups, but especially from the White population. Even […]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6ibJA-mz","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":59,"url":"http:\/\/luishmoreno.com\/?p=59","url_meta":{"origin":1399,"position":0},"title":"Summer Research Project: Oxnard, CA","date":"May 14, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"My summer research project is composed of conducting archival research and oral histories, which I would develop a research paper and notes on the history of Mexicans in Oxnard and Ventura County. 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