New resource: The Migrant Project: Contemporary California Farm Workers

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The Migrant Project: Contemporary California Farm Workers

Rick Nahmias , Photographer

Foreword by Dolores Huerta

The images in this book highlight the lives of the men and women who

struggle to exist while literally feeding this country. Having

traveled over four thousand miles to document California's 1.1

million strong migrant workforce, Nahmias's soulful images and

incisive text go beyond one state's issues, illuminating the bigger

story about the human cost of feeding

America. The Migrant Project includes the images and text of the

traveling exhibition of the same name, along with numerous outtakes

and an in-depth preface by the photographer. Accompanied by a

Foreword from United Farm Worker co-creator Dolores Huerta, essays by

top farm worker advocates, and oral histories from farm workers

themselves, this volume should find itself at home in the hands of

everyone from the student and teacher, to the activist, the

photography enthusiast, and the consumer.

" Every day in the hot fields of California, hundreds of thousands of

farmworkers toil for long hours at low pay to provide fruit and

vegetables to feed our nation. Most Americans never see the faces of

these hard-working men and women, and know little or nothing about

the harsh conditions they endure. The Migrant Project has done an

extraordinary job documenting these

workers' lives. Rick Nahmias's powerful photographs and the beautiful

essays of dedicated advocates tell an inspiring story of the

farmworkers' historic struggle for the respect, the dignity, and the

justice they so obviously deserve. "

--U.S. Senator M. Kennedy, Massachusetts

Available at UNM Press: http://www.unmpress.com/Book.php?id=11612288414879

and Amazon:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0826344070/ref=wl_it_dp?ie=UTF8 & coliid=IEI18DGU\

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50% of royalties are donated to farmworker serving organizations.

Ron Strochlic

Executive Director

California Institute for Rural Studies

221 G Street, Suite 204

, CA 95616

530-756-6555 x16

www.cirsinc.org