Move, Dance, Talk, Resist
For immigrant women to dance and expose themselves through movement is a political act of resistance.
The Future is Another Country
For immigrant women to dance and expose themselves through movement is a political act of resistance.
Lange’s photographs can be considered “care work,” the devalued labor, integral to maintaining human life. By identifying the distress of migrant laborers’ lives, Lange indicated where care had lapsed.
In our current moment, as the Trump administration daily wields federal power to attack immigrant communities and workers’ rights, these kinds of community-driven struggles and organizations serve as a bulwark protecting families and empowering workers to make change where they live and work.
To the present and past Mexican farmworker families of Tulare County: I write for you and walk alongside you. Mis vecinos, you are right. You belong here, just as your history of endurance and resilience belongs in our archives.
The Activist History Review invites proposals for our April 2019 issue, “Migrant: Unwaged Work in the U.S.”