Comments for Pastures of Plenty: Hard Times in the Country: The Depression Years

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This piece belongs to the series "Pastures of Plenty: A History of California Farm Workers"

Produced by Rachel Anne Goodman

Other pieces by RGoodman group

Summary: Program 2 in a four-part series on farmworker history.
 

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Review of Pastures of Plenty: Hard Times in the Country: The Depression Years

This segment documents the how economic stress foments racial hostility toward immigrant workers. It importantly exposes the (often overlooked) forced deportation of Mexican immigrants in California (along with the attempts at repatriation of Filipino immigrants).

This segment intersperses in its recount of the history of California?s farm workers with haunting reminders of the status quo today. The segment ends powerfully by reiterating the point of telling the story of the dilapidated labor camps of the past: these conditions still exist, though for different people ? and they must be brought out of the shadows if the situation is to be ameliorated.