Farmworker

After watching Please Don’t Bury Me Alive, Zoot Suit, Real Women Have Curves, … and the earth did not swallow him, Bless Me Ultima and Walkout my perspectives on Chicano Cinema entirely became different from the impression I had before, on the subject. I had heard of the word Chicano before and knew that it is associated with being Mexican-American but I had no extensive knowledge of all that applies to being a Chicano, Chicano history, culture, heritage and what is considered a Chicano film. I…

Cesar Chavez was born on March 31, 1927, in Yuma, Arizona. He was originally a farmer but he later became known as the best civil rights activist for Latin American people. Chavez dropped out of school after the 8th grade to support his family in the fields, this was where he got firsthand experience to the problems that he would be spending his life changing. He was an American labor leader who founded the National Farm Workers Association along with Dolores Huerta. This organization later…

America has always been a country where immigrants come to look for something better. That may be escaping religion or looking for a better life for them or their family's life. Around 1953 my grandpa went to work in texas. when he was 8 years old, with my great-grandpa (his dad) they worked to send money back to mexico. They would work in the cotton fields but only when it was in season to. When the season would end they’d go back to mexico. My father came from Salamanca Guanajuato, Mexico.…

Valdez describes him as hardworking “But his most attractive feature is that he’s hard-working”(42), but to Jimenez hard workers aren’t enough, showing the start to the discrimination the farmworker faced. Jimenez is mostly concerned with the appearance of the farmworker “.. We are looking for someone suave...but of course not too dark”(42), showing how the government looks at mexicans, they are “not good enough” for Reagan’s political purpose, so they are rejected by Miss JIM-enez…

Discuss the ways in which power/powerlessness comes into play in the situation of women farmworkers who are undocumented immigrants. (Here, you can talk about the power of the farm owners relative to the workers.) The ways in which the patriarchal hegemony have been socially constructed gives cisgender men power over all other identities. Because of this dynamic, it comes as no surprise that women farmworkers face harassment from their male supervisors. Not only are these men privileged because…

of farmworkers were foreign born. In mexico, citizens face everyday violence, drugs, poor economy, and government corruption. It is a dangerous place to live, and difficult to make a good life in. A third of of Mexicans want to leave their home country to America, and half of those would do so illegally. 53% of Mexico's population is at the poverty line "A Mexican national can earn six times more working here in the United States than they can in Mexico", Erik Nicholson, npr.org. "Farmworkers’…

Optional Bonus Point Projects: Migrant Farmworkers In the documentary, "Viva La Causa" the working conditions for the migrant field workers were very poor and described as, "hard work, low pay." The video showed men wiping sweat off their faces with bandanas, so it was a clear indication that they worked in high temperatures and were not properly hydrated at all. They earned approximately a dollar an hour with no health benefits and the government did little to help. There were no laws set in…

“Bernardo had stomach pain, the reason for these stomach pains is he works for long periods of time and he does not eat enough in that time, so his stomach becomes very pain full” (105). As you can see by this example you can tell that the migrant farmworkers are not treated fairly they would…

Most people that enjoy the produce on the table do not realize that it is was grown through extensive effort and hard work from farm workers. Farm workers grow and pick the harvest people eat. They undergo continuous physical stress while doing their job. This results in injuries and serious issues that can affect their career. Their health is put at risk when these concerns persist and when they are not provided with suitable housing. In 1970, farm laborers were paid above minimum wage at a…

Cesar Chavez was born in Yuma, Arizona on March 31, 1927. His parents were Librado Chavez and Juana Chavez, he was the second child from five children. They had a little farm and a country store. When the Great Depression and years of drought many left the land. They had moved to California, due to the fact they had lost their farm and their store 1937. Cesar had attended 38 schools and stopped when he was done with 8th grade. They had to be moving from farm to farm. He married his high school…