Curious Unions: Mexican American Workers and Resistance in Oxnard, California, 1898–1961

List of Illustrations

ILLUSTRATIONS Map of Oxnard, California, 1950 … xvi Table showing land tenure … 33 photographs 1 Two sugar beet workers hoeing a field … 39 2 Mexican women residents at a sugar beet ranch … 40 3 Betabeleros thinning on hands and knees … 42 4 absc factory in Oxnard … 47 5 The Oxnard brothers, 1918 … 47 6 absc Chinese cooks having lunch … 52 7 An absc adobe residence … 60 8 Two families outside an adobe residence … 61 9 An adobe residence on the Borchard Ranch … 61 10 Japanese Obon festival portrait, 1924 … 88 11 China Alley … 95 12 House at 523 Meta Street … 99 13 House at 651 Meta Street … 99 14 absc adobe homes … 100 15 Employee homes on the factory grounds … 101 16 The superintendent’s house at the factory … 101 17 Oxnard Aces baseball team, circa 1930 … 127 18 Japanese sugar beet workers at Maulhardt Ranch … 136 19 Betabeleros in Oxnard … 137 20 fsa camp for evicted workers … 174 21 A meeting at the El Rio fsa camp … 175 22 Children of citrus workers at the fsa camp … 176 23 Charles Todd conducting ethnographic research … 177 24 Two men providing entertainment at the fsa camp … 178 25 Children under a U.S. Department of Agriculture sign … 179 26 Frank V. Barajas … 180 27 Chief Hinostro with officers Chronister and Robbins … 187 28 cso members in California, circa 1954 … 228 29 cso members during the Oxnard general election, 1958 … 233 30 Dionicio Morales at the Oxnard Buena Vista bracero camp … 247 viii list of illustrations ...