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Grounds for Dreaming: Mexican Americans, Mexican Immigrants, and the California Farmworker Movement Format:Paperback But Conn is drawn toKnown as "The Salad Bowl of the World," California's Salinas Valley became an agricultural empire due to the toil of diverse farmworkers, including Latinos. A sweeping critical history of how Mexican Americans and Mexican immigrants organized for their rights in the decades leading up to the seminal strikes led by Cesar Chavez, this important work also looks closely at how different groups of Mexicans U. S. born, bracero, and undocumented confronted