In this Book
- Man of Fire: Selected Writings
- Book
- 2013
- Published by: University of Illinois Press
- Series: The Working Class in American History
summary
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.
Throughout his life, Galarza confronted and analyzed some of the most momentous social transformations of the twentieth century. Inspired by his youthful experience as a farm laborer in Sacramento, he dedicated his life to the struggle for justice for farm workers and urban working-class Latinos and helped build the first multiracial farm workers union, setting the foundation for the emergence of the United Farm Workers Union. He worked to change existing educational philosophies and curricula in schools, and his civil rights legacy includes the founding of the Mexican American Legal Defense Fund (MALDEF) and the National Council of La Raza (NCLR). In 1979, Galarza was the first U.S. Latino to be nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature, for works such as Strangers in Our Fields, Merchants of Labor, Barrio Boy, and Tragedy at Chualar.
Table of Contents
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- Title Page, Copyright, Quote
- pp. 2-7
- Illustrations
- pp. ix-x
- Acknowledgments
- pp. xi-xii
- Introduction
- pp. xiii-xxiv
- Organization of the Book
- pp. xxv-xxviii
- Part 1: Coming of Age in a Class Society
- In a Mountain Village
- pp. 3-14
- On the Edge of the Barrio
- pp. 15-24
- Part 2: Mexican Labor, Migration, and the American Empire
- Program for Action
- pp. 32-45
- California the Uncommonwealth
- pp. 46-62
- Part 3: Action Research in Defense of the Barrio
- Personal Manifesto
- pp. 65-71
- Alviso: The Crisis of a Barrio
- pp. 100-128
- Part 4: Power, Culture, and History
- Part 5: Organizing against Capital
- Labor Organizing Strategies, 1930–1970
- pp. 177-191
- Plantation Workers in Louisiana
- pp. 203-223
- Strangers in Our Fields
- pp. 236-256
- Part 6: Letters from an Activist
- To Henry P. Anderson, April 2, 1958
- pp. 265-266
- To Henry P. Anderson, April 30, 1958
- pp. 267-268
- Letter to Henry P. Anderson, June 24, 1958.
- pp. 269-270
- To Norman Smith, December 5, 1959
- pp. 273-274
- Selected Bibliography
- pp. 283-284
- Select Chronology
- pp. 285-288
- Production Notes
- pp. 333-337
Additional Information
ISBN
9780252094934
Related ISBN(s)
9780252037672, 9780252082580
MARC Record
OCLC
851183442
Pages
336
Launched on MUSE
2013-08-13
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
2013