New Video: Don Mitchell on the Bracero Program

March 1, 2013 · by · in

Thanks to our Videographer fellows, we now have access to a new video of Don Mitchell’s EES talk on California’s Bracero Program:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-S_SqA4Zbgw

 

On Wednesday, October 18, 2012, “Prospect: Organized Resistance, Persistent Landscapes, and Sculpted Futures at the End of the Bracero (“Guest Worker”) Program in California” was hosted at the Graduate Center, CUNY by the Earth and Environmental Science Department, Geography Concentration.

Don Mitchell is Distinguished Professor of Geography at Syracuse University. He is the author of They Saved the Crops: Labor, Landscape and the Struggle over Industrial Farming in Bracero-Era California (University of Georgia Press, 2012). Mitchell is the recipient of the Retzius Medal in Gold from the Swedish Society of Anthropology and Geography. He is a leading participant in the Community Geography Project in Syracuse, NY.