Example sentences for: bracero

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

  • Some have compared the Bracero Program with legalized slavery, and the impact on the perception of the Mexican farmworker by American agribusiness has been to foster contempt and disdain.

  • 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.

  • Until only recently bracero was applied to any Mexican farmworker, and is often used interchangeably with words like “wetback” or “greaser.”

  • 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 Bracero program has been likened by some to indentured slavery where employer exploitation was rampant and inhumane.


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