Ernesto C Galarza

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, ...

Barrio Boy is the remarkable story of one boy's journey from a Mexican village so small its main street didn't have a name, to the barrio of Sacramento, California, bustling and thriving in the early decades of the twentieth century. With vivid imagery and a rare gift for re-creating a child's sense...

All uses of this manuscript are covered by legal agreements between the Regents of the University of California and Ernesto Galarza dated July 28, 1980 and November 21, 1981. The manuscript is thereby made available for research purposes. All literary rights in the manuscript, including the right to...

Galarza discusses Mexican American labor history, leading up to Joseph DiGiorgio and the DiGiorgio Fruit Corporation and the union organizing and strike attempts in 1949-1950. He discusses the bracero program, illegal immigration of Mexicans, and the political maneuvering to break the strike.