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Unearthing the Interracial Justice of Filipino American Agricultural Labor Organizing Marc-Tizoc González St UC Irvine Law Review Volume 3 Issue 4 Reigniting Community: Strengthening the Article 9 Asian Pacific American Identity 12-2013 Critical Ethnic Legal Histories: Unearthing the Interracial Justice of Filipino American Agricultural Labor Organizing Marc-Tizoc González St. Thomas University Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarship.law.uci.edu/ucilr Part of the Law and Race Commons, and the Legal History Commons Recommended Citation Marc-Tizoc González, Critical Ethnic Legal Histories: Unearthing the Interracial Justice of Filipino American Agricultural Labor Organizing, 3 U.C. Irvine L. Rev. 991 (2013). Available at: https://scholarship.law.uci.edu/ucilr/vol3/iss4/9 This Article and Essay is brought to you for free and open access by UCI Law Scholarly Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in UC Irvine Law Review by an authorized editor of UCI Law Scholarly Commons. Critical Ethnic Legal Histories: Unearthing the Interracial Justice of Filipino American Agricultural Labor Organizing Marc-Tizoc González* I. Introduction—Filipino and Mexican Solidarity Sparks the Great Delano Grape Strike of September 1965 ..................................................................... 992 II. From Law Stories to Critical Ethnic Legal Histories ......................................... 1004 A. Theoretical Interventions—Critical Outsider Jurisprudence and Comparative Ethnic Studies .......................................................... 1007 B. The Unwritten Histories of California Legal Advocacy Organizations ........................................................................................... 1017 * Associate Professor of Law, St. Thomas University School of Law. This Article expands upon my presentation “Toward a California Filipina/o Legal History,” at the March 15–16, 2012 symposium, “Reigniting Community: Strengthening the Asian Pacific American Identity.” For organizing the event, I thank the University of California, Irvine Asian Pacific American Law Student Association, and their supporters at the UC Irvine School of Law. Gracias también (thanks also) to the UC Irvine Law Review editorial team for their diligence; and Cynthia Lane, J.D. expected 2014, and Jesse S. Peterson, J.D. expected 2015; St. Thomas University School of Law, for outstanding research assistance. For helpful comments on earlier drafts of this Article, I thank Professors Alfredo P. García, Lauren Gilbert, Trina Jones, Stephen Lee, Guadalupe Luna, Tayyab Mahmud, George A. Martínez, and Ira Nathenson, along with the attendees of my Jan. 24, 2013 faculty presentation at the St. Thomas University School of Law, and William R. Tamayo, Regional Attorney, United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, San Francisco. I also thank Associate Dean Natasha Martin and Professor Steven Bender for inviting me to present an earlier version of this Article at the Feb. 25, 2013, faculty workshop of the Seattle University School of Law. Finally, I thank Professor Stephen Lee, UC Irvine School of Law, for sparking the initial conversation that led to my extended research on the oft-forgotten history of interracial solidarity between the Filipina/o American and Mexican American farm workers, whose unions catalyzed the agricultural labor organization and social movement that evolved into the famed United Farm Workers of America. I dedicate this Article a mi familia maternal (to my maternal family), in particular mi abuelita (my dear grandmother) María Monreal Valadez (Aug. 6, 1911–July 5, 1996), mother Petra Monreal Valadez (b. Feb. 26, 1944), and uncle Raymond Monreal Valadez (Dec. 30, 1933–Nov. 30, 2013). La familia Valadez worked in the fields and packing sheds of the Salinas Valley from 1946 until the late 1960s, with my mother working alongside her parents and siblings until she answered her calling to become an educator. Throughout her career as a socially active Chicana schoolteacher, she educated poor and otherwise marginalized English language learners, helping la juventud de California (the youth of California) to develop one of the fundamental bases of learning—literacy. 991 992 UC IRVINE LAW REVIEW [Vol. 3:991 C. Pedagogical Interventions—Interracial Justice at Law ......................... 1025 D. Methodological Interventions—Mi Cuento, Nuestras Historias (My Story, Our Histories) ...................................................................... 1029 III. Unearthing the Interracial Justice of Filipina/o American Agricultural Labor Organizing in and Beyond the State of California .......................... 1035 A. Manongs in the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee, AFL-CIO, 1959–1966 ............................................................................ 1036 B. Philip Vera Cruz (1904–1994) and Larry Itliong (1913–1977) ........... 1041 C. Interracial Solidarity in Pre-1965 Filipina/o American Agricultural Labor Organizing .............................................................. 1045 D. Filipina/o Americans and Mexican Americans Forge the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee (UFWOC), 1966–1972 ..... 1050 E. Disintegrating? Interracial Justice in the UFWOC and the United Farm Workers of America, 1971–1977 ............................................... 1053 IV. Conclusion—From American Nationals to Subjects of Global Neoliberalism.................................................................................. 1056 V. Postscript—Assembly Bill 123 and the Itliong-Vera Cruz Middle School .... 1062 I. INTRODUCTION—FILIPINO AND MEXICAN SOLIDARITY SPARKS THE GREAT DELANO GRAPE STRIKE OF SEPTEMBER 1965 On September 8, 1965, over one thousand predominantly Filipino farm workers affiliated with the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee (AWOC) struck against grape growers in Delano, California.1 Iterating strike demands that 1. KENNETH C. BURT, THE SEARCH FOR A CIVIC VOICE: CALIFORNIA LATINO POLITICS 221 (2007) (“[Mexican American civic leaders] were in Delano on September 8, 1965 to demonstrate their support for AWOC’s strike, which was strongest among Filipinos but included some Latino and Anglo members.”); SUSAN FERRISS & RICARDO SANDOVAL, THE FIGHT IN THE FIELDS 86 (1997) (“On September 8, NFWA members . rushed into the association’s office with news that Filipinos from nine labor camps—nine vineyards—had gone out on strike in Delano under the AWOC banner.”); CRAIG J. JENKINS, THE POLITICS OF INSURGENCY: THE FARM WORKER MOVEMENT IN THE 1960S, at 146 (1985) (“[T]he AWOC called a strike on the morning of September 8 . .”); CRAIG SCHARLIN & LILIA VILLANUEVA, PHILIP VERA CRUZ: A PERSONAL HISTORY OF FILIPINO IMMIGRANTS AND THE FARMWORKERS MOVEMENT 35 (2000) (“On September 8, 1965, at the Filipino Hall at 1457 Glenwood Street in Delano, the Filipino members of AWOC held a mass meeting to discuss and decide whether to go on strike . .”); RANDY SHAW, BEYOND THE FIELDS: CESAR CHAVEZ, THE UFW, AND THE STRUGGLE FOR JUSTICE IN THE 21ST CENTURY 18 (2008) (“The Delano strike against grape growers was called by Filipino workers who were affiliated with the AFL-CIO–chartered Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee (AWOC).”); see also FILIPINO MEMORIAL PROJECT, REMEMBERING THE LEADERSHIP OF FILIPINO FARMWORKERS IN THE 1965 DELANO GRAPE STRIKE: A MEMORIAL TO THEIR DEDICATION AND LEGACY 3 (2011) (discussing a proposal “to commemorate Larry Itliong, Pete Velasco, Philip Vera Cruz, Andy Imutan, Ben Gines, Pete Manuel, the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee (AWOC), and the 1500 predominantly Filipino farmworkers who walked off the fields of Delano on September 8, 1965”); Dorothy Fujita Rony, Coalitions, Race, and Labor: Rereading Philip Vera Cruz, 3 J. ASIAN AM. STUDIES 139, 143 (2000) (“The initial walkout that began the strike occurred on September 8, 1965, when farmworkers in the Delano area, predominantly Filipina/o American, voted to strike against the grape growers.”); Emelyn 2013] FILIPINA/O AMERICAN LABOR ORGANIZING 993 AWOC–organized workers had won in the Coachella Valley earlier that year, they refused to work for less than the $1.40 hourly wage that the United States Department of Labor required California growers to pay Mexican bracero2 laborers that year—walking off the fields and/or staying home in their labor camp housing for the next several days.3 In retaliation, growers called in scab strikebreakers, Cruz Lat, Paving the Way for UFW, S.F. EXAMINER, Oct. 19, 1997, at C (“The strike vote came on Sept. 8, 1965, at a meeting of the AFL-CIO affiliated Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee (AWOC), a union of mostly Filipino workers, at the Filipino Hall in Delano.”); Adrian Cruz, Racialized Fields: Asians, Mexicans, and the Farm Labor Struggle in California 117 (2009) (unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) (“[Larry] Itliong organized Filipino workers to commence strike activity on September 8, 1965 . .”); Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee Collection Papers, 1959–1966, WALTER P. REUTHER LIBRARY, at 1, http://www.reuther.wayne.edu/files/LR000221_AWOC.pdf (last visited Jan. 21, 2013) [hereinafter AWOC Collection] (“On September 8, 1965 the AWOC local in Delano, made up mainly of Filipinos, called for a strike against local grape growers.”). 2. “Bracero is the Spanish equivalent of farm hand, meaning one who works with his arms (brazos).” ERNESTO GALARZA, MERCHANTS OF LABOR: THE MEXICAN BRACERO STORY 268 n.2 (1964). “Such organization [of Mexican braceros] was initiated between 1942 and 1951 on an emergency basis through a series of agreements between the governments
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