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- SAGE
- Copyright
- © 2014, The Murphy Institute, City University of New York
- ISSN
- 1095-7960
- eISSN
- 1557-2978
- DOI
- 10.1177/1095796014543108
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Abstract
543108 NLFXXX10.1177/1095796014543108New Labor ForumBooks and the Arts research-article2014 New Labor Forum 2014, Vol. 23(3) 92 –108 Books and the Arts Copyright © 2014, The Murphy Institute, City University of New York Reprints and permissions: sagepub.com/journalsPermissions.nav nlf.sagepub.com insight into the historic oppression of Mexico Chávez in Hollywood: and the Mexican people by U.S. capitalism and A Roundtable how resistance against this oppression infused and energized the farmworker struggle. For Directed by Diego Luna, Pantelion Films instance, the film depicts the historic 1965 meet- (Santa Monica, CA), 2014. ing at Our Lady of Guadalupe Church in Delano where Mexican grape workers voted over- whelmingly to join Filipinos on strike. The meet- ing, on Mexican Independence Day, was filled with references to the struggle for independence and the Mexican revolution. Yet the scene is essentially scrubbed clean of such historical con- nections as is, indeed, the movie itself. Broad social upheaval, revolutionary and liberation struggles, boiled up across the world and in the United States from 1965 to 1970. This period of massive opposition to the racist, capitalist/imperialist system was the crucial environment out of which a grape strike trans- formed into a powerful and historically signifi- cant social movement. Yet, in
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Published: Sep 1, 2014