Down in the Salinas Valley
As the debate over immigration reform continues in Washington D.C., Need to Know offers an inside look at the lives of Latino farm workers.
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Steinbeck’s Salinas Valley
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Steinbeck’s The Harvest Gypsies
Before he wrote his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck was commissioned by The San Francisco News to write a series of articles on the migrant laborers of the Salinas Valley. The result, ‘The Harvest Gypsies” (1936) were published consecutively from October 5 to October 12, 1936. In 1938 the Simon J. […]
Taking on poverty in Salinas
Poverty trends in Salinas may be an important case study for the United States, as shifting demographics create new challenges for policy-makers across the country.
Need to Know: March 1, 2013: Down in the Salinas valley
As the debate over immigration reform continues in Washington D.C., Need to Know offers an inside look at the lives of Latino farm workers.
Interview: Claudio Iván Remeseira
Editor-in-chief of “Hispanic New York” (www.hispanicny.com), a blog and social media platform on Latino and Latin American news and culture.
Explore the banned curriculum
In this week’s Need to Know, we report on the long-running dispute over a Mexican-American studies program that has tensions high in Tucson, Arizona. But what’s behind the uproar? What does the contested curriculum actually look like? Here we explore two of the banned books in Tucson — and ask you to form your own opinions […]
Read the report
Via the Tucson Sentinel: An independent audit of Tucson Unified School District’s Mexican American Studies Department doesn’t support the declaration by state schools chief John Huppenthal that TUSD’s ethnic studies classes violate the law. TUSD ethnic studies audit View Need to Know’s report “Banned in Arizona.”
