"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 Nahmias. 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 Edward M. Kennedy, Massachusetts
"Nahmias's images starkly capture both the humanity of the farm workers who literally feed our country, and the inhumanity of a system which has kept them and their predecessors prisoners to poverty for decades. This book is a testament to the flesh-and-blood cost of feeding America."--Arianna Huffington, author, editor-in-chief of "The Huffington Post," and nationally syndicated columnist
Exhibition schedule for "The Migrant Project" photographs:
Mexican Cultural Institute, Washington D.C., February 21-April 14, 2008
Museum of Tolerance, Los Angeles, California, March 4-April 25, 2008
For more information on immigrant and migrant worker issues, please access the following organizations:
Farmworker Justice
California Rural Legal Assistance
National Association of State Directors of Migrant Education
National Council for La Raza
International Relations Center Americas Program
Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute
Global Commission on International Migration
Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy
National Farmworker Ministry
National Rural Funders Collaborative
National Farm Worker Alliance
Southern Poverty Law Center
UMOS
Clergy and Laity United for Economic Justice
American Friends Service Committee
AFL-CIO
Coalition for Comprehensive Immigration Reform
Catholic Campaign for Immigration Reform
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"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 Nahmias. 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 Edward M. Kennedy, Massachusetts
"Nahmias's images starkly capture both the humanity of the farm workers who literally feed our country, and the inhumanity of a system which has kept them and their predecessors prisoners to poverty for decades. This book is a testament to the flesh-and-blood cost of feeding America."--Arianna Huffington, author, editor-in-chief of "The Huffington Post," and nationally syndicated columnist
Exhibition schedule for "The Migrant Project" photographs:
Mexican Cultural Institute, Washington D.C., February 21-April 14, 2008
Museum of Tolerance, Los Angeles, California, March 4-April 25, 2008
For more information on immigrant and migrant worker issues, please access the following organizations:
Farmworker Justice
California Rural Legal Assistance
National Association of State Directors of Migrant Education
National Council for La Raza
International Relations Center Americas Program
Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute
Global Commission on International Migration
Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy
National Farmworker Ministry
National Rural Funders Collaborative
National Farm Worker Alliance
Southern Poverty Law Center
UMOS
Clergy and Laity United for Economic Justice
American Friends Service Committee
AFL-CIO
Coalition for Comprehensive Immigration Reform
Catholic Campaign for Immigration Reform
Imprint | University of New Mexico Press |
Country of origin | United States |
Release date | February 2008 |
Availability | Expected to ship within 10 - 15 working days |
First published | March 2008 |
Authors | Rick Nahmias |
Foreword by | Dolores Huerta |
Dimensions | 229 x 279 x 12mm (L x W x T) |
Format | Paperback |
Pages | 160 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-8263-4407-6 |
Barcode | 9780826344076 |
Categories | |
LSN | 0-8263-4407-0 |