Latinx Encounters: How Mexicans, Mexican Americans, and Puerto Ricans Made the Modern Midwest

Dr. Juan I. Mora examines three groups of Latinxs as they used postwar migration, temporary guest-worker programs, and agricultural labor to redefine migrant power, justice, and rights in the twentieth century Midwest, and particularly in Michigan. He shows that Latinx migrants melded distinct claims to U.S. citizenship, ethnic identity, and labor rights through conflicts over access to intermediary influence, shifting processes of racialization, and the politics of foodways. Mora is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Research on Race and Ethnicity in Society and a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Indiana University. Related Collections: Agricultural Workers History Collection Ken Barger Papers Detroit Latino Records Farm Labor Organizing Committee (FLOC) Records Monsignor Clement Kern Papers New Detroit, Inc. Records UFW Central Administration Records UFW Michigan Boycott Records UFW Office of the President: Cesar Chavez Records Episode Credits Producers: Dan Golodner and Troy Eller English Interviewee: Juan I. Mora Music: Bart Bealmear