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What Price Wetbacks?

Please visit the California Revealed website to see the most complete and up-to-date version of this object: https://repository.californiarevealed.org/node/517199 . · Please be advised that users may encounter offensive, harmful, or otherwise outdated content within this material. California Revealed does not censor content within publicly available materials in an effort to maintain an understanding of the context of creation and avoid misrepresenting the historical record. · Racist report that describes the "dangers" of undocumented immigrants in the United States. This item contains harmful and racist language. We have included these problematic terms in the record to provide information about the record creators and make these collections more accessible for research. This collection refers to Mexican agricultural workers as “wetbacks,” a derogatory term to disempower these workers. This object is from the personal papers of researcher Henry P. Anderson. The materials cover agricultural labor conditions, corporate agriculture and farm economy, pesticide use and effect on workers, agriculture-related legislation, farmer associations, and labor, religious and political organizing

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