Farm Worker Futurism: Speculative Technologies of Resistance
Curtis Marez
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Description for Farm Worker Futurism: Speculative Technologies of Resistance
Hardback. Series: Difference Incorporated. Num Pages: 232 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JFD. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 363.
When we think of literature and film about farm workers, The Grapes of Wrath may come to mind, but Farm Worker Futurism reveals that the historical role of technology, especially new media, has in fact had much more to do with depicting the lives of farm laborers-Mexican migrants in particular-in the United States. From the late 1940s, when Ernesto Galarza led a strike in the San Joaquin Valley, to the early 1990s, when the United Farm Workers (UFW) helped organize a fast in solidarity with janitors at Apple Computers in the Santa Clara Valley, this book explores the friction between ... Read more
When we think of literature and film about farm workers, The Grapes of Wrath may come to mind, but Farm Worker Futurism reveals that the historical role of technology, especially new media, has in fact had much more to do with depicting the lives of farm laborers-Mexican migrants in particular-in the United States. From the late 1940s, when Ernesto Galarza led a strike in the San Joaquin Valley, to the early 1990s, when the United Farm Workers (UFW) helped organize a fast in solidarity with janitors at Apple Computers in the Santa Clara Valley, this book explores the friction between ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Series
Difference Incorporated
Condition
New
Number of Pages
232
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816672318
SKU
V9780816672318
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About Curtis Marez
Curtis Marez is associate professor and chair of ethnic studies at the University of California, San Diego. He is the author of Drug Wars: The Political Economy of Narcotics (Minnesota, 2004), the former editor of the American Quarterly, and a past president of the American Studies Association.
Reviews for Farm Worker Futurism: Speculative Technologies of Resistance
Perhaps the greatest contribution of Farm Worker Futurism lies in its bold, creative, and apt attention to the intersections of labor and art as an inextricable dyad. Indeed, Marez's attention to art associated with farmworker labor invites similar attention to art and discourse about a fuller range of labor-based cultural production. -American Literary History Farm Worker ... Read more