Lori Flores, Associate Professor at Stony Brook University: "Grounds for Dreaming." Hosted by Amy C. Offner, Associate Professor, Department of History at Penn

"Grounds for Dreaming: Mexican Americans, Mexican Immigrants, and the California Farmworker Movement"

LORI FLORES 

Associate Professor (Ph.D., Stanford University, 2011) Her research and writing focuses on Latinx life, labor, and politics in the United States from the post-WWII era to the present day. Her first book,  Grounds for Dreaming: Mexican Americans, Mexican Immigrants, and the California Farmworker Movement  (Yale University Press, 2016), examined the working and social relationships between Mexican Americans and Mexican migrants (bracero, undocumented, and other type of guest worker) in the agricultural empire of California's Salinas Valley, and told the story of how a diverse farmworker community fought for its labor rights against powerful agribusiness interests.