Frank P Barajas
Biographic Data
| ID | 995690 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Frank P Barajas |
| GIVEN NAMES | Frank P |
| FAMILY NAME | Barajas |
| SIGNATURE | BARAJAS F P |
| AFFILIATIONS | California State University, Channel Islands |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Archiving Mexican Masculinities in Diaspora
Abandoning Their Beloved Land
After Japan bombed Pearl Harbor in December 1941, the United States abruptly entered a global conflict. By early 1942 large numbers of men and women joined the war effort, in uniform and industry, putatively depleting the supply of essential agricultural workers. To replace them, federal officials, at the behest of agribusiness, reached a bilateral agreement with Mexico to have men contracted to labor in the United States, largely in agriculture.…
Labor's Outcasts
Journal Article Labor's Outcasts: Migrant Farmworkers and Unions in North America, 1934–1966 Get access Labor's Outcasts: Migrant Farmworkers and Unions in North America, 1934–1966. By Andrew J Hazelton. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2022. xviii, 241 pp. Cloth, $110.00. Paper, $28.00.) Frank P Barajas Frank P Barajas California State University Channel Islands, Camarillo, California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academ…
The Injustice Never Leaves You
Using a transgenerational lens, Monica Muñoz Martinez cogently narrates a supplementary corrective to the history of the Texas Rangers from the bottom up. Since the early twentieth century, families who suffered the cold-blooded violence of this agency petitioned authorities in the United States and Mexico for legal justice. More recently, the progeny of these victims contested the way the state of Texas whitewashed its inglorious past. Martinez'…
Of Forests and Fields
Mexicans in the forests and fields of Idaho, Oregon, and Washington?! That maybe be the question for many (not necessarily historians) with a narrow perspective of this group as a vestige conquered population of the Southwest or as recent outsiders. But from the start, where employment was available there was a good chance that Mexican workers and their families would be there. Consequently, Of Forests and Fields joins an emergent conversation th…
From South Texas to the Nation
Get me more Mexicans!,” South Texas cotton growers, undoubtedly, commanded labor agents since the 1920s, when migrant families absconded northward to work in the sugar beet fields of Colorado. This developed as revolutions emerged on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border in South Texas in the early twentieth century. Consequently, John Weber contends niftily that South Texas growers perfected a model of labor relations ultimately emulated by the n…
Power and Control in the Imperial Valley
Journal Article Power and Control in the Imperial Valley: Nature, Agribusiness, and Workers on the California Borderland, 1900–1940 Get access Power and Control in the Imperial Valley: Nature, Agribusiness, and Workers on the California Borderland, 1900–1940 . Connecting the Greater West Series. By Andrés Benny J.Jr . Foreword by Sterling Evans. ( College Station : Texas A&M University Press , 2015 . xvii + 229 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bib…
Jeffrey Marcos Garcilazo. Traqueros
For those who came of age during the civil rights era of the latter twentieth century, the representation of Spanish-speaking people in the United States often consisted of stereotypes. When not omitted, people of Mexican origin were portrayed by the media and academics alike as somnolent peons beneath the shade of cacti. Social scientists, moreover, frequently characterized the Mexican community as apolitical, disorganized, and tractable. This n…
The Power of the Zoot
Journal Article The Power of the Zoot: Youth Culture and Resistance during World War II Get access The Power of the Zoot: Youth Culture and Resistance during World War II. American Crossroads Series. By Alvarez Luis. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008. xiii + 318 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $34.95, £19.95.) Frank P. Barajas Frank P. Barajas California State University Channel Islands Search for other works by this …
An Invading Army
The Defense Committees of Sleepy Lagoon
The Sleepy Lagoon Defense Committee originated as an ad hoc committee and evolved to a broad-based movement for legal justice on behalf of seventeen youths convicted of murder and assault charges in connection with the Sleepy Lagoon case in Los Angeles in January 1943. This essay chronicles the multidimensional organizing to shift public opinion in the case, in which activists skillfully utilized the specter of a fifth-column element made up of M…
Beasts of the Field
Journal Article Beasts of the Field: a Narrative History of California Farmworkers, 1769–1913 Get access Beasts of the Field: a Narrative History of California Farmworkers, 1769–1913. By Street Richard Steven. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2004. xxv + 904 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. $75.00, cloth; $29.95, paper.) Frank P. Barajas Frank P. Barajas California State University Channel Islands Search for other works by this author on: Ox…
Resistance, Radicalism, and Repression on the Oxnard Plain
During the Great Depression beet sugar growers on the Oxnard Plain cut the wages of laborers. This, coupled with a tradition of resistance to injustice, sparked a strike by betabeleros (sugar beet workers) that was supported by the Cannery and Agricultural Workers Industrial Union, the Mexican community, and cross-cultural alliances
An Invading Army
Of Forests and Fields
Mexicans in the forests and fields of Idaho, Oregon, and Washington?! That maybe be the question for many (not necessarily historians) with a narrow perspective of this group as a vestige conquered population of the Southwest or as recent outsiders. But from the start, where employment was available there was a good chance that Mexican workers and their families would be there. Consequently, Of Forests and Fields joins an emergent conversation th…
Resistance, Radicalism, and Repression on the Oxnard Plain
During the Great Depression beet sugar growers on the Oxnard Plain cut the wages of laborers. This, coupled with a tradition of resistance to injustice, sparked a strike by betabeleros (sugar beet workers) that was supported by the Cannery and Agricultural Workers Industrial Union, the Mexican community, and cross-cultural alliances
Beasts of the Field
Journal Article Beasts of the Field: a Narrative History of California Farmworkers, 1769–1913 Get access Beasts of the Field: a Narrative History of California Farmworkers, 1769–1913. By Street Richard Steven. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2004. xxv + 904 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. $75.00, cloth; $29.95, paper.) Frank P. Barajas Frank P. Barajas California State University Channel Islands Search for other works by this author on: Ox…
The Defense Committees of Sleepy Lagoon
The Sleepy Lagoon Defense Committee originated as an ad hoc committee and evolved to a broad-based movement for legal justice on behalf of seventeen youths convicted of murder and assault charges in connection with the Sleepy Lagoon case in Los Angeles in January 1943. This essay chronicles the multidimensional organizing to shift public opinion in the case, in which activists skillfully utilized the specter of a fifth-column element made up of M…
An Invading Army
The Power of the Zoot
Journal Article The Power of the Zoot: Youth Culture and Resistance during World War II Get access The Power of the Zoot: Youth Culture and Resistance during World War II. American Crossroads Series. By Alvarez Luis. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008. xiii + 318 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $34.95, £19.95.) Frank P. Barajas Frank P. Barajas California State University Channel Islands Search for other works by this …
Jeffrey Marcos Garcilazo. Traqueros
For those who came of age during the civil rights era of the latter twentieth century, the representation of Spanish-speaking people in the United States often consisted of stereotypes. When not omitted, people of Mexican origin were portrayed by the media and academics alike as somnolent peons beneath the shade of cacti. Social scientists, moreover, frequently characterized the Mexican community as apolitical, disorganized, and tractable. This n…
Power and Control in the Imperial Valley
Journal Article Power and Control in the Imperial Valley: Nature, Agribusiness, and Workers on the California Borderland, 1900–1940 Get access Power and Control in the Imperial Valley: Nature, Agribusiness, and Workers on the California Borderland, 1900–1940 . Connecting the Greater West Series. By Andrés Benny J.Jr . Foreword by Sterling Evans. ( College Station : Texas A&M University Press , 2015 . xvii + 229 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bib…
From South Texas to the Nation
Get me more Mexicans!,” South Texas cotton growers, undoubtedly, commanded labor agents since the 1920s, when migrant families absconded northward to work in the sugar beet fields of Colorado. This developed as revolutions emerged on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border in South Texas in the early twentieth century. Consequently, John Weber contends niftily that South Texas growers perfected a model of labor relations ultimately emulated by the n…
Of Forests and Fields
Mexicans in the forests and fields of Idaho, Oregon, and Washington?! That maybe be the question for many (not necessarily historians) with a narrow perspective of this group as a vestige conquered population of the Southwest or as recent outsiders. But from the start, where employment was available there was a good chance that Mexican workers and their families would be there. Consequently, Of Forests and Fields joins an emergent conversation th…
The Injustice Never Leaves You
Using a transgenerational lens, Monica Muñoz Martinez cogently narrates a supplementary corrective to the history of the Texas Rangers from the bottom up. Since the early twentieth century, families who suffered the cold-blooded violence of this agency petitioned authorities in the United States and Mexico for legal justice. More recently, the progeny of these victims contested the way the state of Texas whitewashed its inglorious past. Martinez'…
Abandoning Their Beloved Land
After Japan bombed Pearl Harbor in December 1941, the United States abruptly entered a global conflict. By early 1942 large numbers of men and women joined the war effort, in uniform and industry, putatively depleting the supply of essential agricultural workers. To replace them, federal officials, at the behest of agribusiness, reached a bilateral agreement with Mexico to have men contracted to labor in the United States, largely in agriculture.…
Labor's Outcasts
Journal Article Labor's Outcasts: Migrant Farmworkers and Unions in North America, 1934–1966 Get access Labor's Outcasts: Migrant Farmworkers and Unions in North America, 1934–1966. By Andrew J Hazelton. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2022. xviii, 241 pp. Cloth, $110.00. Paper, $28.00.) Frank P Barajas Frank P Barajas California State University Channel Islands, Camarillo, California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academ…
Archiving Mexican Masculinities in Diaspora
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