Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Organization of the Book
Part 1: Coming of Age in a Class Society
In a Mountain Village
On the Edge of the Barrio
Part 2: Mexican Labor, Migration, and the American Empire
Life in the United States for Mexican People: Out of the Experience of a Mexican
Program for Action
California the Uncommonwealth
Part 3: Action Research in Defense of the Barrio
Personal Manifesto
The Reason Why: Lessons in Cartography
Economic Development by Mexican-Americans in Oakland, California
Alviso: The Crisis of a Barrio
Part 4: Power, Culture, and History
Mexicans in the Southwest: A Culture in Process
The Mexican-American Migrant Worker—Culture and Powerlessness
How the Anglo Manipulates the Mexican-American
Part 5: Organizing against Capital
Labor Organizing Strategies, 1930–1970
Poverty in the Valley of Plenty: A Report on the Di Giorgio Strike
Plantation Workers in Louisiana
The Farm Laborer: His Economic and Social Outlook
Strangers in Our Fields
Part 6: Letters from an Activist
To Alfred Blackman, California Division of Industrial Safety, June 20, 1957.
To Congressman James Roosevelt, December 20, 1957
Open letter to Members of the House of Representatives, co-signed by NAWU President H. L. Mitchell
To Henry P. Anderson, April 2, 1958
To Henry P. Anderson, April 30, 1958
Letter to Henry P. Anderson, June 24, 1958.
To Jack Livingston, AFL-CIO Department of Organization, and Norman Smith, AFL-CIO Organizer, May 5
To Norman Smith, December 5, 1959
To “Liberal Friends who live in the East,” March 18, 1960
Part 7: Appendix
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Index