Latinx Encounters: How Mexicans, Mexican Americans, and Puerto Ricans Made the Modern Midwest

The fields and orchards of the Midwest have offered seasonal agricultural work for countless Latinx migrant laborers. For more than a century, Mexican, Mexican American, and Puerto Rican migrants converged in the heartland’s agricultural industry to perform some of the most grueling labor needed to sustain the vital agribusiness of the region. In return, they were rewarded with dismal working conditions, poor government protections, and fierce hostility to their organizing efforts. Juan Ign...