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María Herrera-Sobek
The Bracero Experience (Out of Print)
Elitelore versus Folklore
1979
142 pp., bibl., index
0-87903-066-6 Paper $9.95 Out of Print. Latin American Studies, Vol. 43

A study of the Mexican immigrant worker contrasting the image of the bracero in literature with a composite drawn from interviews with sixteen former braceros from Michoacán and with a depiction of the bracero in a selection of folk songs.