Man of Fire: Selected Writings (Working Class in American History) - Softcover

Galarza, Ernesto

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0252082583 ISBN 13: 9780252082580

Publisher: University of Illinois Press, 2017

Synopsis

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. Including excerpts from some of Galarza's indispensable books Barrio Boy and Merchants of Labor: The Mexican Bracero Story as well as articles, conference papers, interviews, and previously unpublished reports, the writings in this collection cover such timely subjects as labor, community development, immigration politics and the Bracero Program, the Chicano movement, Mexican American education, ethnic relations, and U.S.-Mexico relations.

About this title

Book Description

The key works of the Latino labor activist and scholar

About the Author

Ernesto Galarza was an activist, professor, writer, and a key figure in the farm workers' labor movement in the United States. Armando Ibarra is an associate professor in the School for Workers at the University of Wisconsin--Extension and a faculty member in Chican@/Latin@ studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Rodolfo D. Torres is a professor of urban planning, political science, and Chican@/Latin@ studies at the University of California, Irvine. He is the author of Race Defaced: Paradigms of Pessimism, Politics of Possibility.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 0252082583
• ISBN 13: 9780252082580
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 336
• Editor: Torres Rodolfo, Ibarra Armando