La Uva, Mexican-American winemaking: Lucha, Oportunidad y Familia
La Uva, Mexican-American winemaking: Lucha, Oportunidad y Familia
By Eduardo Díaz, Director – Smithsonian Latino Center (3 minute read) The advent of World War II (WWII) created a serious labor shortage in the United States. With so many men […]
The radically old-fashioned solution for America’s immigration crisis
*Latinos will fuel 25% of the U.S. economy by 2020, we will purchase 50% of homes in the next 20 years, we’re increasing in college enrollment when overall enrollment is […]
Long-Lost Photos Reveal Life of Mexican Migrant Workers in 1950s America
By Victor Landa, NewsTaco (1 minute read) TIME magazine has published a series of revealing photographs of the Bracero program from 1957. Sixty years ago the Saturday Evening Post […]
“Role Tide” and Obama’s Executive Action
A smart look at the President’s executive action, U.S. labor history and the emergence of El Nuevo South. VL By Eduardo Diaz, Director, Smithsonian Latino Center Like many in this country, Priscilla […]
Indiana Researcher: Few Benefits for Workers with Temporary Visas
*Being a bracero is no consolation: “New University of Indiana research has found that most temporary workers from Mexico who get work visas are no better off than those who […]
CARDBOARD BOX DREAMS: A Bracero’s Story
By Celia Viramontes, Tell Your True Tales The train screeched to a halt in Empalme, Sonora. Don Luis adjusted his wide-brimmed sombrero over his head and clutched his small bag […]
The Bracero Treaty changed America
*Important, lest we forget. Timely as well, given the influx of immigrant children at the border. The cherry picking of immigrants “we want and don’t want” began with the Bracero […]
Northwestern University hosts “Bittersweet” exhibit about bracero guest worker program
By Ray Salazar, NewsTaco The Smithsonian Institution’s traveling exhibit “Bittersweet Harvest: The Bracero Program, 1942-1964” will be on display at Northwestern University through March 28 at the Dittmar Gallery on the first floor of […]
How a U.S. Guest Worker Program Worked Before
By Ray Salazar, NewsTaco With the Obama administration and the bipartisan senate Gang of Eight poised to move on comprehensive immigration reform soon, which may include an agricultural guest worker program, our country has […]
