Research Catalog

Title

Rows of memory : journeys of a migrant sugar-beet worker / Saúl Sánchez.

Author

Sánchez, Saúl, 1943-

Publication

Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, [2014]

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Details

Description

xxviii, 210 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Summary

Tells the story fo Saul Sanchez and his family and other migrant farm laborers like them who endured dangerous, dirty conditions and low pay, surviving because they took care of each other. --p. 4 of cover.

Uniform Title

Project Muse UPCC books

Subjects

• Sánchez, Saúl, 1943-
• Autobiographies
• Biographies
• Migrant labor > United States > Biography

Genre/Form

• Biographies
• Autobiographies

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (page 197) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Machine generated contents note: One. The Spinach Capital of the World -- Two. Following the Migrant Trail North to Iowa and Minnesota -- Three. Leaving for California -- Four. The Migrant Experience from Birth to Age Five -- Five. A Crystal City Education -- Six. Joining the Workforce in Wisconsin -- Seven. Compromises in Delano, Wind Lake, and Burlington -- Eight. From La Grammar to Elk Grove Consolidated -- Nine. Youthful Rebellion in Billings, Montana -- Ten. Competition in Moses Lake, Washington -- Eleven. Crystal City High -- Twelve. New Beginnings in Iowa -- Thirteen. Graduating from Crystal City -- Fourteen. Hauling Tomatoes to the Heinz Plant -- Fifteen. Experiments in the Iowa Fields -- Sixteen. School and Work from Texas to East L.A. -- Seventeen. Working the Rows between Classes -- Eighteen. Using the Long Hoe in North Dakota -- Nineteen. Adjusting to Academic Life in San Marcos -- Twenty. Leaving the Migrant Trail.

ISBN

• 1609382331
• 9781609382339

LCCN

^^2013952704

OCLC

863201328

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library