Word: bracero
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Calluses & Quotas. Serrano had no thought of becoming a wetback, a border-jumper. Instead, he wanted to be a bracero, a legal farm worker entitled to full protection of U.S. laws under the U.S.Mexican Migrant Labor Agreement. Of the two required qualifications, one came naturally for Serrano: callused hands to prove that he was a genuine farm worker...
...also has works by less famed painters, and in some of their pictures New Mexico comes to life with surprising sharpness. Among the standouts: Ernest Blumenschein's Downtown Albuquerque, a view of rooftops and buildings from a hotel window; Kenneth Barrick's Motherless Child, a dimly glimpsed bracero woman carrying a child through a sandstorm...