ALL THEY WILL CALL YOU
October 11
6:00 - 8:00 p.m.
MS 162
Tim Z. Hernandez was born and raised in California's San Joaquin Valley. He is an award-winning poet, novelist, and performer. His latest book is a haunting oral history and narrative of unveiling the names and lives of 28 Mexican Bracero laborers who died in a plane crash in Los Gatos Canyon in January 28, 1948. The victims were never identified and were buried in a mass grave with a single plaque for all 28 of them.
All They Will Call You: The Telling of the Plane Wreck at Los Gatos Canyon is the process of naming and telling the unique life stories and thus humanizing the experience of the fate of these Braceros and their legacies of love, loss, hope, and narratives of labor history between the U.S. and Mexico.
The title of the book is inspired by a poem of Woody Guthrie, later becoming an iconic protest song of the 20th century and sung by many folk singers such as Pete Seeger, Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, among
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