CHICANO 149 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Josefina Fierro De Bright, Silver City, New Mexico, Luisa Moreno
31 Oct 2016
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Walnut workers: smash walnuts with fists instead of hammers. Work benches were the catalyst: ragged/jagged which tore the women"s stockings. Chapter offers a range and a sample of such activist paths, also integration of private and public worlds. Also sketches out contours of mexican women"s public roles (in pursuit of social justice and in partnership with men) Chicanas belong to a history of voluntarist politics (discourse of community organizations, activism, and politics of resistance) 24 led by cannery and agricultural workers" industrial union (cawiu) Mexican families composed 95% of rank and file. Women did not sit on the sidelines: they distributed food, formed picket lines, taunted scabs, fought back against the police. San joaquin valley cotton strike: david v goliath, mexican campesinos vs euro-american agribusiness. El monte berry strike (1933): 1,500 berry pickers went on strike in fields demanding pay increase, owners were japanese leaseholders.
