*FARMWORKER JUSTICE MOVEMENTS

Catalog description

Justice movements for farmworkers have a long and storied past in the annals of US history. This course begins with the 1960s Chicano civil rights era struggles for social justice. Focus on the varied strategies of four farmworker justice movements: United Farm Workers, Farm Labor Organizing Committee, Pineros y Campesinos Unidos Noroeste, and the Coalition of Immokalee Workers. The course is structured around the question of the movement and its various articulations. Course covers central themes and strategies that comprise the core of farmworker movements but is designed to allow students to explore other articulations they find relevant. (Bacc Core Course)