{"id":1614,"date":"2024-04-08T10:20:21","date_gmt":"2024-04-08T17:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ethnicstudies.ucr.edu\/?p=1614"},"modified":"2024-10-27T08:16:25","modified_gmt":"2024-10-27T15:16:25","slug":"in-search-of-the-tomato-king-finding-a-mexican-migrant-politician-rooted-in-california-soil-by-prof-adrian-felix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ethnicstudies.ucr.edu\/in-search-of-the-tomato-king-finding-a-mexican-migrant-politician-rooted-in-california-soil-by-prof-adrian-felix\/","title":{"rendered":"In Search of the ‘Tomato King’: Finding a Mexican Migrant Politician, Rooted in California Soil, by Prof. Adr\u00edan F\u00e9lix"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ethnic Studies professor Adr\u00edan F\u00e9lix recently published an essay, titled “In Search of the ‘Tomato King’: Finding a Mexican Migrant Politician, Rooted in California Soil<\/a>” in Z\u00f3calo Public Square. Here is an excerpt:<\/p>\n

I am writing a biography of Berm\u00fadez, and I am drawn equally to this complex and contradictory figure by his larger-than-life character\u2014in his signature all-black cowboy ensemble\u2014and by the unprecedented transnational movement he ignited. Berm\u00fadez gave migrants a voice in the politics of their homeland. He also reproduced the strongman tendencies and political bossism he fought against, not to mention machismo.<\/p>\n

He is both rule and exception: so much like millions of fellow Mexican migrants who anonymously toil in this country, but also remarkable for transcending strictures of citizenship and borders. Tracing his California path through rural swaths of the state is a reminder of how Berm\u00fadez, and others, have made it their home while maintaining lifelong ties to their ancestral motherlands.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

You can read the full article<\/a> on Z\u00f3calo Public Square. Image above: Tomato King Andr\u00e9s Berm\u00fadez by Be Boggs<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ethnic Studies professor Adr\u00edan F\u00e9lix recently published an essay, titled “In Search of the ‘Tomato King’: Finding a Mexican Migrant Politician, Rooted in California Soil” in Z\u00f3calo Public Square. Here is an excerpt: I am writing a biography of Berm\u00fadez, and I am drawn equally to this complex and contradictory figure by his larger-than-life character\u2014in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1615,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[45,25,46],"class_list":["post-1614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-faculty-news","tag-california","tag-department-news","tag-migrants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ethnicstudies.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ethnicstudies.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ethnicstudies.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ethnicstudies.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ethnicstudies.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1614"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ethnicstudies.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1619,"href":"https:\/\/ethnicstudies.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1614\/revisions\/1619"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ethnicstudies.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ethnicstudies.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ethnicstudies.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ethnicstudies.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}