César Chávez (Masterplots II: Juvenile and Young Adult Biography Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Jacques E. Levy
- First Published: 1975
- Time of Work: 1927–1974
- Setting: Arizona and California
- Principal Characters: César Chávez, Juana Estrada Chávez, Librado Chávez, Helen Chávez, Jerry Cohen, Fred Ross, Dolores Huerta, Marshall Ganz, Monsignor George Higgins
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: Social action, Farms, farmers, or farming, Mexican Americans, Migrant labor, Agriculture, Latinos, Labor unions, Biography, Unions or unionism
- Locales: California, Arizona
Form and Content
In César Chávez: Autobiography of La Causa, Jacques E. Levy combines several forms of storytelling—traditional biography, autobiography, oral history, and journalism—to recount the remarkable life of the migrant farmer-turned-labor leader and his unique social movement. To the lengthy tape-recorded reminiscences by Chávez, his family members, and his union colleagues, Levy adds his own firsthand reporting on the innermost workings of the United Farm Workers.
The reader hears in Chávez’s own words memories of his early life in Arizona and...
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