The U.S.-Mexico Bracero Program
First Edition| ©2021 Ronald I. Mize
This document collection will introduce students to the U.S.-Mexico Bracero program and the experiences of those who labored within it. Students will engage with a wide range of primary sources, constructing an argument based on the central question: How did the nation’s first and largest guest w...
This document collection will introduce students to the U.S.-Mexico Bracero program and the experiences of those who labored within it. Students will engage with a wide range of primary sources, constructing an argument based on the central question: How did the nation’s first and largest guest worker program establish the context for the U.S. treatment Mexican labor migrants?
Students are guided in their analyses of the documents by a learning objective, central question, historical background, source headnotes, source questions, project questions and suggestions for further research. Through their work with these sources, they will gain a deeper awareness of the diversity of the American experience, a more complete understanding of the present in an historically-based context, an enhanced ability to read, interpret, assess, and contextualize primary sources, and practice explaining historical change over time.
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This document collection will introduce students to the U.S.-Mexico Bracero program and the experiences of those who labored within it. Students will engage with a wide range of primary sources, constructing an argument based on the central question: How did the nation’s first and largest guest worker program establish the context for the U.S. treatment Mexican labor migrants?
Students are guided in their analyses of the documents by a learning objective, central question, historical background, source headnotes, source questions, project questions and suggestions for further research. Through their work with these sources, they will gain a deeper awareness of the diversity of the American experience, a more complete understanding of the present in an historically-based context, an enhanced ability to read, interpret, assess, and contextualize primary sources, and practice explaining historical change over time.
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Ronald I. Mize
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The U.S.-Mexico Bracero Program
First Edition| 2021
Ronald I. Mize
Table of Contents
Central Question
Learning Objective
Historical Background
Timeline
PRIMARY SOURCES
Original Bracero Agreement of 1942
Standard Bracero Work Contract and Accompanying Letters, November 14, 1958 to May 9, 1962
Documentary Photographs
Testimonio of a Bracero: Don Antonio, 1997
Archival Field Notes from NFLU Labor Organizer Ernesto Galarza, October 16, 1955
Mexican official Xavier Castaneda Addressing Deportees, 1951
Grower Testimony to U.S. President’s Commission on Migratory Labor, 1951
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Ronald I. Mize
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The U.S.-Mexico Bracero Program
First Edition| 2021
Ronald I. Mize
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