National Farmworker Awareness Week
A Display in JFK's Secrist Gallery, March 29-April 7
National Farmworker Awareness Week (NFAW) is a week of action for community members to honor the important contributions done by farmworkers and raise awareness about the issues they face.
Part of EWU C.A.M.P.’s National Farmworker Awareness Week. Events include:
- March 29 – April 7: Library Display | Secrist Gallery, JFK Library
- March 29 – April 7: Long-Sleeve Shirt Drive Collection | PUB 2nd Floor
- March 29 – April 7: Bandana Viewing Project | C.A.M.P. Department Offices, MON 203
- April 10: Ceasar Chavez Blood Drive | 10 am – 3 pm | PUB NCR
This informational and cultural display details the history of farmworkers in our region. Library resources within the display include:
Barefoot heart: stories of a migrant child
Defiant braceros: how migrant workers fought for racial, sexual, and political freedom
Corridors of migration: the odyssey of Mexican laborers, 1600—1933
From the jaws of victory: the triumph and tragedy of Cesar Chavez and the farm worker movement
César Chávez: a brief biography with documents
The fight in the fields: Cesar Chavez and the Farmworkers movement
The union of their dreams: power, hope, and struggle in Cesar Chavez’s farm worker movement
The crusades of Cesar Chavez: a biography
Beasts of the field: a narrative history of California farm workers, 1769-1913
Grounds for dreaming: Mexican Americans, Mexican immigrants, and the California farmworker movement
Everyone had cameras: photography and farmworkers in California, 1850-2000
Dark sweat, white gold: California farm workers, cotton, and the New Deal
Growing up Brown: memoirs of a Filipino American
¡Sí, ella puede!: the rhetorical legacy of Dolores Huerta and the United Farm Workers
Photographing farmworkers in California
The Devil’s fruit: farmworkers, health, and environmental justice
The migrant project: contemporary California farm workers
Food rebellions!: crisis and the hunger for justice
Slipping away: banana politics and fair trade in the Eastern Caribbean
Farmers of the golden bean: Costa Rican households, global coffee, and fair trade
Grain by grain: a quest to revive ancient wheat, rural jobs, and healthy food
Barnyards and Birkenstocks: why farmers and environmentalists need each other
From the farm to the table: what all Americans need to know about agriculture
Amber waves and undertow: peril, hope, sweat, and downright nonchalance in dry wheat country
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