Farm Worker Futurism - 9780816697458

Farm Worker FuturismSpeculative Technologies of Resistance\nAuthor(s): Curtis Marez\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Minnesota Press, United States\nImprint: University of Minnesota Press\nISBN-13: 9780816697458, 978-0816697458\nSynopsis\nWhen we think of literature and film about farm workers, The Grapes of Wrath may come to mind, but Farm Worker Futurism reveals that the historical role of technology, especially new media, has in fact had much more to do with depicting the lives of farm laborers-Mexican migrants in particular-in the United States. From the late 1940s, when Ernesto Galarza led a strike in the San Joaquin Valley, to the early 1990s, when the United Farm Workers (UFW) helped organize a fast in solidarity with janitors at Apple Computers in the Santa Clara Valley, this book explores the friction between agribusiness and farm workers through the lens of visual culture.\n\nMarez looks at how the appropriation of photography, film, video, and other media techn.