Farm Worker Futurism - Speculative Technologies of Resistance

Klappentext Curtis Marez is associate professor and chair of ethnic studies at the University of California! San Diego. He is the author of Drug Wars: The Political Economy of Narcotics (Minnesota! 2004)! the former editor of the American Quarterly! and a past president of the American Studies Association. Zusammenfassung Farm WorkerFuturism reveals that thehistorical role of technology has had much to do with depicting the lives offarm laborers-Mexican migrants in particular-in the United States. This bookexplores the friction between agribusiness and farm workers through the lens ofvisual culture.

Product details

• Authors: Curtis Marez
• Publisher: University Of Minnesota Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2016
• EAN: 9780816672318
• ISBN: 978-0-8166-7231-8
• No. of pages: 232
• Series: Difference Incorporated; Difference Incorporated
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Media science