Example sentences for: bracero

How can you use “bracero” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • In Mexico the experience was written about from the perspective of those who returned, as in such books as Aventuras de un Bracero, by Jesus Amaya Topete, published in 1949 and reprinted several times, and in the United States the novel Macho!

  • The word bracero comes from the Spanish word brazo (arm), which is used, as English uses “hand,” to mean “laborer.”

  • In the same way bracero commonly means a man who works with his hands, a laborer, and is used when speaking of all farm and agricultural workers.

  • He is in the company of the historical mestizo character of Yo soy Joaquín, the revolutionary figure of Joaquín Murrieta, the mythical pachuco, the stately learned persona of Dr. Paredes, the gentle leadership of César Chávez; the bracero is the universally exploited farmworker, the campesino of the world.

  • Maria Herrera-Sobek -describes the prototype of the bracero, as represented in countless corridos, in her book The Bracero Experience.


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