Devra Anne Weber
Biographic Data
| ID | 1355036 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Devra Anne Weber |
| GIVEN NAMES | Devra Anne |
| FAMILY NAME | Weber |
| SIGNATURE | WEBER D A |
| AFFILIATIONS | History, university of California, Los Angeles |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Raiz Fuerte
Mexicana field workers, as agricultural laborers, have been remarkable for their absence in written agricultural history. This chapter explores how oral histories can help us understand the consciousness of a group of Mexican women cotton workers who participated in the 1933 cotton strike in California’s San Joaquin Valley. The wretchedness of conditions became confused with the social worlds of the workers. Pictured as victims of a brutal system…
In the Fields of the North/En Los Campos del Norte
The Chicano Generation
The Chicano Generation is the latest in Mario T. Garcia's series of interviews with Chicano (and one Chicana) activists from East Los Angeles, an epicenter of the Chicano movement. Garcia uses the interviews as testimonios—a collective Latin American first-person narrative of resistance—to form a “collective memoir or autobiography” (p. 13). Garcia extensively interviewed the photojournalist Raul Ruiz, the Brown Beret activist Gloria Arellanes, a…
Wobblies of the Partido Liberal Mexicano
This article examines the Mexican grassroots base of the Partido Liberal Mexicano (PLM) and PLM members who belonged to the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). It suggests that a grassroots perspective, one that is also multilingual and transnational, reframes both the PLM and the IWW. Eschewing an institutional approach, this perspective suggests that the organizational underbelly for much of this work rested with Mexican social networks that…
Raiz Fuerte
The Organizing of Mexicano Agricultural Workers
Research Article| October 01 1972 The Organizing of Mexicano Agricultural Workers: Imperial Valley, and Los Angeles An Oral History 1928-34, Approach Devra Anne Weber Devra Anne Weber History, University of California, Los Angeles Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Aztlán (1972) 3 (2): 307–350. https://doi.org/10.1525/azt.1972.3.2.307 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementa…
Down the Valleys Wild
Research Article| October 01 1970 ‘...down the valleys wild:’ Epilogue, Prologue, Medias-res still; the strikes of the thirties Juan Gómez-Q, Juan Gómez-Q Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Devra Anne Weber Devra Anne Weber Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Aztlán (1970) 1 (1): 119–123. https://doi.org/10.1525/azt.1970.1.1.119 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures …
Raiz Fuerte
Wobblies of the Partido Liberal Mexicano
This article examines the Mexican grassroots base of the Partido Liberal Mexicano (PLM) and PLM members who belonged to the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). It suggests that a grassroots perspective, one that is also multilingual and transnational, reframes both the PLM and the IWW. Eschewing an institutional approach, this perspective suggests that the organizational underbelly for much of this work rested with Mexican social networks that…
In the Fields of the North/En Los Campos del Norte
Down the Valleys Wild
Research Article| October 01 1970 ‘...down the valleys wild:’ Epilogue, Prologue, Medias-res still; the strikes of the thirties Juan Gómez-Q, Juan Gómez-Q Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Devra Anne Weber Devra Anne Weber Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Aztlán (1970) 1 (1): 119–123. https://doi.org/10.1525/azt.1970.1.1.119 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures …
The Organizing of Mexicano Agricultural Workers
Research Article| October 01 1972 The Organizing of Mexicano Agricultural Workers: Imperial Valley, and Los Angeles An Oral History 1928-34, Approach Devra Anne Weber Devra Anne Weber History, University of California, Los Angeles Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Aztlán (1972) 3 (2): 307–350. https://doi.org/10.1525/azt.1972.3.2.307 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementa…
Raiz Fuerte
Wobblies of the Partido Liberal Mexicano
This article examines the Mexican grassroots base of the Partido Liberal Mexicano (PLM) and PLM members who belonged to the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). It suggests that a grassroots perspective, one that is also multilingual and transnational, reframes both the PLM and the IWW. Eschewing an institutional approach, this perspective suggests that the organizational underbelly for much of this work rested with Mexican social networks that…
The Chicano Generation
The Chicano Generation is the latest in Mario T. Garcia's series of interviews with Chicano (and one Chicana) activists from East Los Angeles, an epicenter of the Chicano movement. Garcia uses the interviews as testimonios—a collective Latin American first-person narrative of resistance—to form a “collective memoir or autobiography” (p. 13). Garcia extensively interviewed the photojournalist Raul Ruiz, the Brown Beret activist Gloria Arellanes, a…
In the Fields of the North/En Los Campos del Norte
Raiz Fuerte
Mexicana field workers, as agricultural laborers, have been remarkable for their absence in written agricultural history. This chapter explores how oral histories can help us understand the consciousness of a group of Mexican women cotton workers who participated in the 1933 cotton strike in California’s San Joaquin Valley. The wretchedness of conditions became confused with the social worlds of the workers. Pictured as victims of a brutal system…
History (5 works) · Latin American and Latino Studies (5 works) · Archaeology (3 works) · Art (2 works) · Citation (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Context (archaeology (2 works) · Cuban History and Society (2 works) · Download (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works)