Example sentences for: bracero

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

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

  • The bracero experience has been written about in novels and depicted in numerous movies, and although the image presented is often a negative one, like other Chicano folk heroes the bracero has become an archetype of the culture.

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

  • 19The Conference Report on IRCA noted in discussing the SAW program that "the Committeewas ever mindful of the reports of abuses that occurred during the old Bracero program."

  • 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.


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