ABSTRACT
The different dimensions of ethnicity in an inter-ethnic group conflict are explored in this study of the struggle between the predominantly Mexican American United Farm Workers Union and the Japanese American initiated Nisei Farmers League. Our central thesis is that although the economic/situational dimension of ethnicity plays the dominant role in generating the causes and consequences of the conflict between the farm workers and the growers, the interpretive dimension of ethnicity also plays a significant role in the processes of resource mobilization within the respective ethnic groups as well as generating intra-ethnic group conflict and “crosspressüres” on individual ethnic group members.
