Please check out this new book on the history of Chicana\/os in Oxnard, CA (Chiques). Frank Barajas’s Curious Unions: Mexican American Workers and Resistance in Oxnard, California, 1898-1961 can be added to a concise list of other vital books (Tomas Almaguer’s Racial Fault Lines and Martha Menchaca’s The Mexican Outsiders) dealing with the history of […]<\/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-6M","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":53,"url":"http:\/\/luishmoreno.com\/?p=53","url_meta":{"origin":420,"position":0},"title":"Chiques History Note #2 – CSO, Chicano Moratorium, and Colonia Village","date":"April 9, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Chiques History Notes is a series of posts based on my research on Oxnard, CA. One of the first newspaper articles informing the Mexican community about the Community Service Organization (CSO) in Oxnard. Local Chicana\/os organized one of the largest march held in Oxnard in 1970, exposing the Mexican community\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Chiques History Notes"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2293\/2440471288_711c910eeb.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1497,"url":"http:\/\/luishmoreno.com\/?p=1497","url_meta":{"origin":420,"position":1},"title":"Chiques History Note #9 – Works Progress Administration (WPA)","date":"August 2, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Chiques History Notes is a series of posts based on my research on Oxnard, CA. I came across the following photographs of Mexican children celebrating Halloween at Guadalupe School years ago. What caught my attention was the Works Progress Administration (WPA) stamp on them. During the 1930s, the WPA had\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Chiques History Notes"","img":{"alt_text":"Untitled","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/c1.staticflickr.com\/1\/302\/18489453056_8311107d09_z.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":2405,"url":"http:\/\/luishmoreno.com\/?p=2405","url_meta":{"origin":420,"position":2},"title":"LA RAZA MORATORIUM PEACE MARCH – SEPTEMBER 19, 1970","date":"September 3, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"The following is an excerpt from my book chapter in The Chicano Movement: Perspectives From The Twenty-First Century (2014). YA BASTA! 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And I have collected new sources for my dissertation project, \u201cLabor, Migration, and Activism: A History of Mexican Workers on the Oxnard\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Archives"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3378\/3672360069_042edf9678.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":104,"url":"http:\/\/luishmoreno.com\/?p=104","url_meta":{"origin":420,"position":4},"title":"Winter Break in Chiques (Oxnard)\u2026","date":"January 7, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"The past four weeks, I have been conducting research on Mexican Nationals (aka braceros) in my hometown of Oxnard. I have spent many hours examining the local newspaper, Oxnard Press-Courier on microfilm and at newspaperarchive.com. 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