Many of the ideas, tactics, and strategies that Chavez and the UFW initiated or revived-including the boycott, the fast, clergy-labor partnerships and door-to-door voter outreach-are now so commonplace that their roots in the farmworkers' movement is forgotten. Beyond the Fields unearths this legacy, and describes how Chavez and the UFW's imprint can be found in the modern reshaping of the American labor movement, the building of Latino political power, the transformation of Los Angeles and California politics, the fight for environmental justice, and the burgeoning national movement for immigrant rights. But left untold has been their ongoing impact on 21st century social justice movements. Cesar Chavez is the most prominent Latino in United States history books, and much has been written about Chavez and the United Farm Worker's heyday in the 1960s and '70s.
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