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Episode 274: Grounds for Dreaming: Mexican Americans, Mexican Immigrants, and the California Farmworker Movement

Episode 274: Grounds for Dreaming: Mexican Americans, Mexican Immigrants, and the California Farmworker Movement

FromThe Farm Report


Episode 274: Grounds for Dreaming: Mexican Americans, Mexican Immigrants, and the California Farmworker Movement

FromThe Farm Report

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Length:
42 minutes
Released:
Jan 14, 2016
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Lori Flores, PhD, Assistant Professor of History at Stony Brook University (SUNY), joins The Farm Report to discuss her book: Grounds for Dreaming: Mexican Americans, Mexican Immigrants, and the California Farmworker Movement. Grounds for Dreaming is a sweeping critical history of how Mexican communities in agricultural California fought for equality and respect in a hostile climate of labor repression and xenophobia. Flores, and host Holli Cederholm, explore the history of the farmworker movement in the U.S., while taking a pulse on present day farmworker conditions and the need for immigration and labor policy reform. The Farmworker Justice Movement has more to accomplish and we need more attention and support paid to this issue. [18:45] When you go to the farmers market ask about the workers too, not just the conditions that the food is grown. [30:00] --Lori Flores on The Farm Report andnbsp;
Released:
Jan 14, 2016
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

The Farm Report is a show about the people, processes, and policies that shape how food is produced today. From the latest agricultural innovations to the day-to-day challenges of running a viable business growing vegetables and grazing cattle, host Lisa Elaine Held engages in conversations with farmers and farmworkers and the people who work alongside them—like chefs, researchers, activists, and investors. Expect from-the-field insights paired with real-world context as guests explore how producing fresh, delicious food relates to environmental and community sustainability, equality and justice, politics and policy, and better health.