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Elaine H. Villanueva met Philip Vera Cruz in 1974 as volunteers in the construction of Agbayani Village, the United Farm Workers retirement complex in Delano, California. Their efforts led to the creation of the United Farm Workers union u

• Title : Philip Vera Cruz: A Personal History of Filipino Immigrants and the Farmworkers Movement, Third Edition
• Author : Craig Scharlin
• Rating : 4.76 (579 Vote)
• Publish : 2014-7-5
• Format : Paperback
• Pages : 208 Pages
• Asin : 0295979844
• Language : English

Elaine H. Villanueva met Philip Vera Cruz in 1974 as volunteers in the construction of Agbayani Village, the United Farm Workers retirement complex in Delano, California. Their efforts led to the creation of the United Farm Workers union under Cesar Chavez, with Philip Vera Cruz as its vice-president and highest-ranking Filipino officer.Philip Vera Cruz (1904–1994) embodied the experiences of the manong generation, an enormous wave of Filipino immigrants who came to the United States between 1910 and 1930. Kim teaches Asian American studies at the University of California, Berkeley, and is the author of Asian American Literature: An Introduction to the Writings and Their Social Context.. In his deeply reflective and thought-provoking oral memoir, Vera Cruz explores the toll these conditions took on both families and individuals.Craig Scharlin and Lilia V. Instead of better opportunities, they found racial discrimination, deplorable living conditions, and oppressive labor practices. Filipino farmworkers sat down in the grape fields of Delano, California, in

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