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Man of Fire: Selected Writings [Pehme köide]

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  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 336 pages, kõrgus x laius x paksus: 235x156x25 mm, kaal: 481 g, 5 black and white photographs
  • Sari: Working Class in American History
  • Ilmumisaeg: 02-Feb-2017
  • Kirjastus: University of Illinois Press
  • ISBN-10: 0252082583
  • ISBN-13: 9780252082580
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  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 336 pages, kõrgus x laius x paksus: 235x156x25 mm, kaal: 481 g, 5 black and white photographs
  • Sari: Working Class in American History
  • Ilmumisaeg: 02-Feb-2017
  • Kirjastus: University of Illinois Press
  • ISBN-10: 0252082583
  • ISBN-13: 9780252082580
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Activist, labor scholar, and organizer Ernesto Galarza (1905–1984) was a leading advocate for Mexican Americans and one of the most important Mexican American scholars and activists after World War II. This volume gathers Galarza's key writings, reflecting an intellectual rigor, conceptual clarity, and a constructive concern for the working class in the face of America's growing influence over Mexico's economic system.
 
Throughout his life, Galarza confronted and analyzed some of the most momentous social transformations of the twentieth century. Inspired by his youthful experience as a farm laborer in Sacramento, he dedicated his life to the struggle for justice for farm workers and urban working-class Latinos and helped build the first multiracial farm workers union, setting the foundation for the emergence of the United Farm Workers Union. He worked to change existing educational philosophies and curricula in schools, and his civil rights legacy includes the founding of the Mexican American Legal Defense Fund (MALDEF) and the National Council of La Raza (NCLR). In 1979, Galarza was the first U.S. Latino to be nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature, for works such as Strangers in Our Fields, Merchants of Labor, Barrio Boy, and Tragedy at Chualar.

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A Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2013. "Ernesto Galarza was a prescient analyst and powerful writer, a scholar, poet, and social activist whose work has profoundly influenced and interested so many. This book will be of use to activists who interrogate political economy and develop strategies that address inequities in class and race."--Patricia Zavella, author of I'm Neither Here nor There: Mexicans' Quotidian Struggles with Migration and Poverty "This outstanding compilation of the selected writings of Ernesto Galarza features an excellent introduction, despite the fact that relatively little is known about Galarza's private life other than what he reveals in his autobiography.  Highly Recommended."--Choice

"Ibarra and Torres are to be commended for their efforts to provide students and scholars new access to the writings of Ernesto Galarza. Man on Fire serves as both an effective summation of his work and a starting point for detailed investigation of a scholar-activist whose output and activities have sadly fallen into undeserved obscurity." --Labor  

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Winner of
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2013.
2013.
List of Illustrations
ix
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction xiii
Organization of the Book xxv
PART 1 COMING OF AGE IN A CLASS SOCIETY
In a Mountain Village
3(12)
On the Edge of the Barrio
15(12)
PART 2 MEXICAN LABOR, MIGRATION, AND THE AMERICAN EMPIRE
Life in the United States for Mexican People: Out of the Experience of a Mexican
27(5)
Program for Action
32(14)
California the Uncommonwealth
46(19)
PART 3 ACTION RESEARCH IN DEFENSE OF THE BARRIO
Personal Manifesto
65(7)
The Reason Why: Lessons in Cartography
72(4)
Economic Development by Mexican-Americans in Oakland, California
76(24)
Alviso: The Crisis of a Barrio
100(31)
PART 4 POWER, CULTURE, AND HISTORY
Mexicans in the Southwest: A Culture in Process
131(30)
The Mexican-American Migrant Worker--Culture and Powerlessness
161(6)
How the Anglo Manipulates the Mexican-American
167(10)
PART 5 ORGANIZING AGAINST CAPITAL
Labor Organizing Strategies, 1930--1970
177(15)
Poverty in the Valley of Plenty: A Report on the Di Giorgio Strike
192(11)
Plantation Workers in Louisiana
203(21)
The Farm Laborer: His Economic and Social Outlook
224(12)
Strangers in Our Fields
236(23)
PART 6 LETTERS FROM AN ACTIVIST
To Alfred Blackman, California Division of Industrial Safety, June 20, 1957
259(2)
To Congressman James Roosevelt, December 20, 1957
261(2)
Open Letter to Members of the House of Representatives, February 17, 1958
263(2)
To Henry P. Anderson, April 2, 1958
265(2)
To Henry P. Anderson, April 30, 1958
267(2)
To Henry P. Anderson, June 24, 1958
269(2)
To Jack Livingston, AFL-CIO Department of Organization, and Norman Smith, AFL-CIO Organizer, May 5, 1959
271(2)
To Norman Smith, December 5, 1959
273(2)
To "Liberal Friends who live in the East," March 18, 1960
275(4)
PART 7 APPENDIX
Vale mas la Revolucion que viene (by Mae Galarza)
279(4)
Selected Bibliography 283(2)
Selected Chronology 285(4)
Index 289
Armando Ibarra is an assistant professor in the School for Workers at the University of Wisconsin-Extension. Rodolfo Torres is a professor of urban and regional planning and urban studies at the University of California, Irvine. His other books include Race Defaced: Paradigms of Pessimism, Politics of Possibility.Constructing Identities in Mexican American Political Organizations: Choosing Issues, Taking Sides