In the article "In the Strawberry Fields", Eric Schlosser uses an abundance of rhetorical strategies to influence the audience. "In the Strawberry Fields" is honest and gets to the point of the illegal immigrants working. His in depth description of the migratory workforce in California proves how farmers who pick strawberries for a living are the lowest-paid, and hardest working, which makes it an unfavorable job amongst farmers. The author uses eloquent details to get the message across that California has also become one of the most dependent states to have the availability of cheap labor. He descriptively details the backbreaking work migrants perform and the financial unsteadiness to make readers aware of their hardships and motivate a
This book takes place in an immigrant enclave in Chicago, known as Packingtown during the turn of the century. While this book is fictional, it looks at the difficult living conditions immigrants faced coming to America and finding work during the beginning of the 20th century. This book looks at the exploitation of these workers from con men preying on their naiveté to their own employers providing workers with very dangerous and appalling working conditions with poor compensation in return. This book begins with the wedding of Jurgis Rudks and fiancé Ona Lukoszaite. The wedding feast is held in a hall at Packingtown.
Seth M. Holmes is the anthropologist behind the work Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies. This book is about an almost hidden world of migrant farm laborers in the USA. This group of hidden people is responsible for providing the United States with fresh fruit and for very little money and poor living conditions. Holmes has written this ethnography to shed light on the downside of agribusiness while showcasing the physical and social problems Mexican workers face in Washington and California while working in the fields providing the United States with fruit. Chapter 1 of Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies details the author’s trip from Oaxaca, Mexico to the border of the United States.
Years back, migrant farm workers worked the fields of California in horrible conditions such as no breaks and pesticide exposure. Years before that, poor children had to work in factories and mills, losing fingers from accidents as they live off of stale bread and coffee. But two people were able to help these people from the unfair treatment they were up against, Cesar Chavez and Mother Jones. Both were able to give their people a better life to their people, later on or during their lifetime. “About Cesar” is a biography by the Cesar Chavez Foundation (CCF) about the life of Cesar Chavez when he learned the difficulties of migrant farm workers and later on creates a union, helping those farm workers stand up and fight for themselves and
But when Mexico’s economy went down the gas station collapsed with his livelihood. His father had to sell it with almost no profit. After the gas station was sold the Quinones-Hinojosa family had to start making they profit with flour tortillas and homemade salsa. When he turned 14 he took short visits to a ranch in San Joaquin Valley, California where his uncle worked as a foreman to make money and bring back for his family by pulling weeds every two months. As a teenager Quinones-Hinojosa always thought he would be an elementary school teacher because of his excellent grades at teacher-training college however he was assigned in a remote, rural area; only that politically-connected affluent kids got good jobs in the city.
In the series of articles written by John Steinbeck, Harvest Gypsies, Steinbeck describes the inhumane conditions and abuse enforced upon the new migrants composed of Dust Bowl refugees. Through detailed accounts of the squatter camps and recurring descriptions of the helpless migrants that live in them, Steinbeck conveys a powerful image of the migrants that invokes sympathy from the readers. Along with gaining sympathy for the migrants, he also shines a light on the oppressive Farmers Association and other large farm groups that controlled the labor in California. In doing so, he exposes the people and the government of California for their combined systemic attempt to keep the new migrants subjugated to poverty and unorganized in order
Workers had to spend the whole day, sacrificing their vitality, working in dangerous places, just to gain a minimum wage and being later demoted to eat the spoiled meat they produce. The author took advantage of the harsh climatic conditions of Chicago to accentuate the extreme working conditions of immigrants. Although noticeable, Jurgis belated to understand that “there was no justice, there was no right, anywhere in it--it was only force, it was tyranny, the will and the power, reckless and unrestrained!”(Sinclair
America is characterized as a country of endless opportunities and freedom. People risk their lives to escape their countries to come to this diversified and wondrous nation to have a desirable quality of life. However, foreigners face a possible likelihood of being unable to escape poverty due to their immigration status and the disadvantage of lacking educational accomplishments. Numerous Americans have become outraged over time due to the decreased employment opportunities and have placed their blame towards noncitizens. Due to the vast majority of these aliens belonging to Mexico, the racial assumption continues to be directed towards Mexicans when referring to immigrants.
However if we watch this movie through race and ethnicity we will see how they were discriminated by their appearance. As this scene when Enrique and Rosa were in the bus going to Tijuana at once to the arrival another passenger told them" We are in Tijuana you Indians get off" That was just powerful since the person just showed hatred toward them because of their appearance as he was worth more than them. Also a particular scene that captured my eyes was when Enrique was with his coworker in the restaurant and a "poncho" past by and made fun of him since he was born and raise their and was making the same type of work as them who were illegal 's. As if the film was trying to explain that Chicanos will always be working for rich white persons since the restaurant was full of white rich people. As toward the end when Enrique is looking for a job a truck comes and says "I want strong arms to work" just showed how films see us as just working
Bowe recounts the pilgrimage of the three young men, N who make their way across the border in hopes of obtaining a more successful life. Particularly, he notes the manner in which a contractor named “El Diablo” insured these innocent men that he is doing everything in their own benefit, but in fact he does the very minimal for them and their well-being (Bowe,
In the essay "A Gringo in the Lettuce Fields," Thompson tells us about his errors and reminds us that he is an outsider. I believe the reason for this is because there is so much misconception that immigrants just come to America to take away these jobs from Americans. I also believe that immigrants know that Americans believe this to be true. With that being said, I think his target audience are both Americans and the immigrants doing this type of work. I think there is somewhat of an ignorance when it comes to understanding what this type of work entails and the damage it does to ones body.
Since the start of colonial Latin America, the development of social inequality in certain Latin American countries like Cuba has been dependent on culture, race, ethnicity and mainly through the rich-poor gap. While social inequality can be related to anything dealing with social interactions such as economics, politics, and racial views of society, the 1964 Cuban film, I am Cuba, directed by Mikhail Kalatozov, displays lively examples of how social inequality often causes conflict. The film views USSR’s portrayal of Cuba and consists of four short stories each about the suffering of the Cuban people and inequality of status and income and the gap between the wealthy and the poor is defined. Cuba was controlled by the U.S. supported tyrant Fulgencio
In The Harvest Gypsies, Steinbeck also describes decreasing morale in the displaced farmers as he says “the dullness shows in the faces…and in addition there is a sullenness that makes them taciturn.” The difficulty of finding adequate work to support a family during the Dust Bowl was extremely high—and as the work was competitive, these farmers implicated the work ethic that began at the beginning of the 20th
Only a third of the one million migrants to California during the Great Depression fled the dust storms in the Midwest, and only half of those were farmers; yet the popular myth of the hungry, poor and dispossessed farmer who only wanted a piece of land to call his own continues to dominate. In this cultural history, Shindo, who teaches history at Louisiana State University, examines the impact of the myth and the reality of Dust Bowl migrants. The four major artists treated here are Dorothea Lange, whose photographs collected in Migrant Mother (1936) symbolized all Depression hopelessness; Woody Guthrie, whose Dust Bowl ballads were informed by his own experiences as an Okie migrant; John Steinbeck, whose novel The Grapes of Wrath (1939) generalized human suffering; and John Ford, who adapted that novel to film the next year.
In ‘’Fresh Fruits and Broken Bodies’’ by Seth Holmes, he describes Fresh Fruits as an ‘’ ethnography of suffering’’, and he is convinced that it is important for him to experience the suffering of his Triqui companions in order to write his book. I understand what Holmes is indicated, in order for someone to feel the other individual pain you’ll have to experience it for yourself to have an accurate understanding of their suffering. Numerous of Trqui people has been suffering and facing many difficulties to support themselves or their families. Holmes discusses and showcases the suffering of these people by being with workers, in fact experiencing some their sufferings for example sometimes picking fruits bending down morning till dawn with the migrants and also Holmes also did follow a group of migrants across the border and showing the dreadful experience of facing of heat and the landscape. People need to be aware of their sufferings in the mainstream media migrant workers are seen as deserving their fates, the migrants are portrayed entirely differently, therefore being treated completely unfair.
