Rio Grande Wetbacks: Mexican Migrant Workers.

Norquest, Carrol

Alert:

Limited Availability of Full-Text Documents. Click here for more information, or here to request the return of a PDF online.

Help

Tutorial

Help |

Tutorial

Help |

Tutorial

Help With This Page

Back to Search Results Help Permalink Share this record

More Info:
Help 0 items in My Clipboard | Add record to My Clipboard

Record Details - ED071800

Title: Rio Grande Wetbacks: Mexican Migrant Workers.

Full-Text Availability Options:

More Info:
Help | Tutorial Help Finding Full Text

Related Items: Show Related Items

Click on any of the links below to perform a new search
Title:	Rio Grande Wetbacks: Mexican Migrant Workers.
Authors:	Norquest, Carrol
Descriptors:	Acculturation; Agriculture; Books; Braceros; Citizenship; Cultural Background; Employer Employee Relationship; Employment Patterns; Individual Characteristics; Mexican Americans; Mexicans; Racial Characteristics; Seasonal Laborers
Source:	N/A
More Info: Help Peer Reviewed:
Publisher:	The University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87106 ($4.95)
Publication Date:	1972-00-00
Pages:	159
Pub Types:	N/A
Abstract:	Farmers in the Lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas saw a rise of wetback labor in the 1930s and 40s. The wetback laborers were Mexicans who had crossed the Rio Grande and were in the United States illegally to work. Carrol Norquest, a farmer in the Lower Rio Grande Valley, employed wetbacks regularly. In this book, Mr. Norquest writes about the wetbacks he employed, about their families, and, in some cases, about incidents told to him by his neighbors. Most of the stories date from the period when wetback labor arose; they are true stories which tell about these people and their hopes, heartbreaks, customs, struggles with the border patrol, feelings, ambitions, envies, kindnesses, and plain meannesses. The dialogue used is a direct translation from the idiom of these people--the Tex-Mex of the border. (NQ)
Abstractor:	N/A
Reference Count:	N/A

Note:	N/A
Identifiers:	Rio Grande Valley; Texas
Record Type:	Non-Journal
Level:	3 - Indexed only
Institutions:	N/A
Sponsors:	N/A
ISBN:	N/A
ISSN:	N/A
Audiences:	N/A
Languages:	N/A
Education Level:	N/A

Back to Search Results