La Causa Bibliography

Living Voices La Causa bibliography 1

FICTION

Elementary

Amelia’s Road Linda Jacobs Altman

A Day’s Work Going Home Eve Bunting

Radio Man/Don Radio: A Story in English and Spanish Arthur Dorros

Home At Last Susan Elya

Grandma and Me at the Flea/Los Meros Meros Remateros Calling the Doves/El canto de las palomas Juan Felipe Herrera

The Christmas Gift (bilingual) La Mariposa Francisco Jimenez

Mama Had to Work on Christmas Carolyn Marsden

My Name is Jorge on Both Sides of the River: Poems Jane Medina

Tomas and the Library Lady Pat Mora

My Diary from Here to There/Mi diario de aqui hasta alla Amada Irma Perez

First Day in Grapes L. King Perez

The Hard-Times Jar Ethel Footman Smothers

Lights on the River Jane Resh Thomas

La Cancion de Gabriela Eric Vasallo

Working Cotton Living Voices La Causa bibliography 2

Sherley Anne Williams

Intermediate

Luipta Manana Patricia Beatty

Under the Same Sky Cynthia DeFelice

Breaking Through The Circuit Francisco Jimenez

Esperanza Rising Pam Munoz Ryan

Canto Familiar Gary Soto

Secondary

Revolt of the Cockroach People Oscar Zeta Acosta

The Plum Plum Pickers Raymond Barrio

!Huelga!: A Novel David Chandler

Devil on My Heels Joyce McDonald

…And the Earth Did Not Devour Him Tomás Rivera

Jesse Gary Soto

In Dubious Battle John Steinbeck

A Long Time Coming Phyllis Whitney

REFERENCE

Elementary Living Voices La Causa bibliography 3

A Picture Book of Cesar Chavez David Adler & Michael Adler

Extraordinary Hispanic Americans Cesar Alegre

Harvest George Ancona

César Carmen Bernier-Grand

Side by Side/Lado A Lado: The Story of Dolores Huerta and Cesar Chavez (bilingual) Monica Brown

César Chavez: A Voice for Farmworkers Bárbara Cruz

Dolores Huerta Jennifer Gillis

Cesar Chavez: La lucha por lo justo (Spanish) Lila y Rick Guzman

Cesar Chavez: Crusader for Social Change Brenda Haugen

The Mexican-American Family Album Dorothy and Thomas Hoobler

Migrant Worker: A Boy from the Rio Grande Valley Diane Hoyt-Goldsmith

Migrant Farmworkers: Hoping for a Better Life Deborah Kent

Harvesting Hope: the Story of Cesar Chavez Kathleen Krull

Cesar Chavez Gary Soto

Listen to Us: The World’s Working Children Jane Springer

Paths to Peace: People Who Changed the World Jane Breskin Zalben

Intermediate

Human Rights: Issues for a New Millennium The Importance of Cesar Chavez Migrant Farm Workers: The Temporary People Living Voices La Causa bibliography 4

Racism and Ethnic Bias: Everybody’s Problem Linda Jacobs Altman

Elegy on the Death of Cesar Chavez Rudolfo Anaya

Voices from the Fields: Children of Migrant Farmworkers Tell Their Stories Beth Atkin

A Migrant Family Larry Brimner

American Immigration: A Student Companion Roger Daniels

Struggling to Become American 1899-1940 Robin Doak

Civil Liberties Scott Gillam

Child Labor Today: A Human Rights Issue Wendy Herumin

We Are Not Beasts of Burden Stuart Kallen

Illegal Immigration Karen Kenney

Migrant Youth: Falling Between the Cracks Joyce Libal

The Ethnic and Group Identity Movements Ann Malaspina

The Mexican-American experience Elizabeth Martinez

Remembering Cesar: The Legacy of Cesar Chavez Ann McGregor

Jessie De La Cruz: A Profile of a United Farm Worker Gary Soto

Dolores Huerta: Voice for the Working Poor Alex Van Tol

A Multicultural Portrait of Labor in America Judith Woodburn

The People Speak: Dramatic Readings Celebrating the Enduring Spirit of Dissent Howard Zinn Living Voices La Causa bibliography 5

Secondary

Dark Harvest: Migrant Farmworkers in America Brent Ashabranner

Trampling Out the Vintage Frank Bardacke

“They Take Our Jobs!” and 20 other myths about immigration Aviva Chomsky

Coming to America: A History of Immigration and Ethnicity in American Life Roger Daniels

Forty Acres: Cesar Chavez and the Farm Workers Mark Day

Delano: The Story of the California Grape Strike John Gregory Dunne

La Causa: The California Grape Strike Paul Fusco and George Horwitz

Barrio Boy Ernesto Galarza

Farmworker’s Daughter: Growing Up Mexican in America Rose Castillo Guilbault

Barefoot Heart: Stories of a Migrant Child Elva Trevino Hart

Cesar Chavez: Autobiography of La Causa Jacques Levy

Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong James W. Loewen

Sal Si Puedes Peter Matthiessen

Huelga: The First hundred Days of the Great Delano Grape Strike Eugene Nelson

Chicano! The History of the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement F. Arturo Rosales

With These Hands: The Hidden World of Migrant Farmworkers Today Daniel Rothenberg

The Fight in the Fields: Cesar Chavez and the Farmworkers Movement Ricardo Sandoval and Susan Ferriss Living Voices La Causa bibliography 6

Beyond the Fields: Cesar Chavez, the UFW, and the Struggle for Justice in the 21st Century Randy Shaw

La Raza: The Mexican Americans Stan Steiner

My Soul Looks Back in Wonder: Voices of the Civil Rights Experience (selections) Juan Williams

Fields of Toil: A Migrant Family’s Journey Isabel Valle

Cesar Chavez: The Rhetoric of Nonviolence Winthrop Yinger

Voices of a People’s History of the United States Howard Zinn and Anthony Arnove

FILM & VIDEO

The Fight in the Fields: Cesar Chavez and the Farmworkers Movement The Golden Cage Harvest of Shame Salt of the Earth Chicano! The History of the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement Gandhi Golden Lands, Working Hands

WEBSITES http://migrantlibrary.org/ The Migrant Library http://ufw.org/ United Farm Workers of America, AFL-CIO: historical and current information http://www.chavezfoundation.org/ Cesar E. Chavez Foundation http://www.nfwsc.org/ The National Farm Workers Service Center http://www.clnet.ucla.edu/research/chavez/ Si Se Puede! Cesar E. Chavez and his Legacy http://www.farmworkermovement.org/; http://farmworkermovement.us/ Farmworker Movement Documentation Project http://www.pbs.org/itvs/fightfields/index.html PBS film The Fight in the Fields: includes interviews and links to other sites (bilingual) Living Voices La Causa bibliography 7 http://www.paradigmproductions.org/resources/Study%20Guide.pdf Online study guide for the PBS film The Fight in the Fields http://www.lasculturas.com/biographies/214-civil-rights Civil Rights Biographies http://cci.sfsu.edu/ Cesar E. Chavez Institute for Public Policy http://www.utpa.edu/orgs/mecha/nat.html M.E.Ch.A (Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlán) http://www.elteatrocampesino.com El Teatro Campesino http://chavez.cde.ca.gov/ModelCurriculum/Intro.aspx Cesar Chavez Model Curriculum http://www.lib.msu.edu/general/collections/chavez/index.jsp Michigan State University Cesar E. Chavez Collection http://www.colapublib.org/chavez/ LA Public Library Cesar Chavez Collection http://unionoftheirdreams.com/home.php The Union of their Dreams by Miriam Pawel (book website) http://www.doloreshuerta.org/ The Dolores Huerta Foundation http://www.teacherlink.usu.edu/tlresources/units/Byrnes-famous/huerta.html Dolores Huerta Lesson Plan http://www.tolerance.org/kit/viva-la-causa The Southern Poverty Law Center: Viva La Causa http://www.epa.gov/pesticides/ U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Pesticide Program http://www.panna.org/ Pesticide Action Network North America http://www.ncfh.org/index.php The National Center for Farmworker Health http://www.farmworkers.org/Welcome.html The Farmworkers Website http://www.pdhre.org/rights/migrants.html The Human Rights of Migrant Workers http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/international/july-dec98/housing_12-25.html Living Voices La Causa bibliography 8

On the Road? Migrant farmworker interview http://www.hrw.org/reports/2000/frmwrkr/index.htm#TopOfPage Fingers to the Bone: United States Failure to Protect Child Farmworkers http://www.ewg.org/reports/cadrift What You Don't Know Could Hurt You: EWG Air Monitoring Finds Toxic Pesticides Drifting From California Farm Fields http://www.ewg.org/reports/everybreathyoutake Every Breath You Take: Airborne Pesticides in the San Joaquin Valley http://www.npr.org/news/specials/housingfirst/index.html Housing First http://devsoc.cals.cornell.edu/outreach/cfp/ Cornell Farmworker Program http://ethemes.missouri.edu/themes/24 University of Missouri Migrant Farmworkers article links http://www.marshfieldclinic.org/nccrahs/default.aspx?page=nccrahs_welcome National Children’s Center for Rural and Agricultural Health and Safety http://www.localharvest.org/ Local Harvest http://ofrf.org/index.html Organic Farming Research Foundation http://hrw.org/ Human Rights Watch: Defending Human Rights Worldwide http://www.youthforhumanrights.org/ Youth for Human Rights http://www.adl.org/education/edu_awod/default.asp Anti-Defamation League: A World of Difference Institute Anti-Bias Education & Diversity Training http://www.tolerance.org/ The Southern Poverty Law Center http://www.facinghistory.org/ Facing History and Ourselves http://www.aclu.org/ American Civil Liberties Union http://historymatters.gmu.edu/ History Matters http://mkgandhi.org/ Mahatma Gandhi site