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Oral Sources and the History of Mexican Workers in the United States

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 December 2008

Devra Weber
Affiliation:
University of California, Los Angeles
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Abstract

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Type
Reports and Correspondence
Copyright
Copyright © International Labor and Working-Class History, Inc. 1983

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NOTES

1. In terminology, I follow the lead of Mexican workers in the United States who. through the thirties, referred to themselves as Mexicans regardless of citizenship or legal status.

2. Weber, Devra Anne, “The Organization of Mexicano Agricultural Workers in the Imperial Valley and Los Angeles, 1928–1934: An Oral History Approach.” Aztlan: Chicano Journal of the Social Sciences and the Arts. 3 (1972).Google Scholar

3. Lopez, Ronald, “The El Monte Berry Strike of 1933,” Aztlan: Chicano Journal of the Social Sciences and the Arts, 1 (1970).Google Scholar

4. For an excellent discussion of these issues see Frisch, Michael H., “The Memory of History,” Radical History Review, 25 (1981), 926CrossRefGoogle Scholar; and Frisch, Michael, “Oral History and Hard Times, A Review Essay,” Red Buffalo, 1 and 2 (n.d.), 230.Google Scholar

5. Coyle, Laurie, Hershatter, Gail, Honig, Emily, “Women at Farah: An Unfinished Story,” in Mexican Women in the United States: Struggles Past and Present, Mora, Magdalena and Castillo, Adelaida de (eds.), (Chicano Studies Research Center, UCLA, 1980), 117145.Google Scholar