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Mexican Americans across generations : immigrant families, racial realities
Studies middle class Mexican American families across three generations and their experiences of racism and assimilation.
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Mexicans in California
Numbering over a third of California's population and thirteen percent of the U.S. population, people of Mexican ancestry represent a hugely complex group with a long history in the country. Contributors address a broad range of issues regarding California's ethnic Mexican population, including their concentration among the working poor and as day laborers; their participation in various sectors of the educational system; social problems such as domestic violence; their contributions to the arts, especially music; media stereotyping; and political alliances and alignments._x000B__x000B_Contributors are Brenda D. Arellano, Leo R. Chavez, Yvette G. Flores, Ramón A. Gutierrez, AÃda Hurtado, Olga Najera-RamÃrez, Chon A. Noriega, Manuel Pastor Jr., Armida Ornelas, Russell W. Rumberger, Daniel G. Solórzano, Enriqueta Valdez Curiel, and Abel Valenzuela Jr.
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Making a Non-White America
What happens in a society so diverse that no ethnic group can call itself the majority? Exploring a question that has profound relevance for the nation as a whole, this study looks closely at eclectic neighborhoods in California where multiple minorities constituted the majority during formative years of the twentieth century. In a lively account, woven throughout with vivid voices and experiences drawn from interviews, ethnic newspapers, and memoirs, Allison Varzally examines everyday interactions among the Asian, Mexican, African, Native, and Jewish Americans, and others who lived side by side. What she finds is that in shared city spaces across California, these diverse groups mixed and mingled as students, lovers, worshippers, workers, and family members and, along the way, expanded and reconfigured ethnic and racial categories in new directions.
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Preserving privilege : California politics, propositions, and people of color
Gibbs and Bankhead examine the history and current situation in California as it struggles to deal with the ethnic and racial change that will make it the first American state to have a non-white majority in the first decade of the 21st century.
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Soft Soil, Black Grapes
Winner of the 2013 New York Book Show Award in
Scholarly/Professional Book Design From Ernest and Julio
Gallo to Francis Ford Coppola, Italians have shaped the history of
California wine. More than any other group, Italian immigrants and
their families have made California viticulture one of America's
most distinctive and vibrant achievements, from boutique vineyards
in the Sonoma hills to the massive industrial wineries of the
Central Valley. But how did a small group of nineteenth-century
immigrants plant the roots that flourished into a world-class
industry? Was there something particularly \"Italian\" in their
success? In this fresh, fascinating account of the ethnic origins
of California wine, Simone Cinotto rewrites a century-old
triumphalist story. He demonstrates that these Italian visionaries
were not skilled winemakers transplanting an immemorial
agricultural tradition, even if California did resemble the rolling
Italian countryside of their native Piedmont. Instead, Cinotto
argues that it was the wine-makers' access to \"social capital,\" or
the ethnic and familial ties that bound them to their rich
wine-growing heritage, and not financial leverage or direct
enological experience, that enabled them to develop such a
successful and influential wine business. Focusing on some of the
most important names in wine history-particularly Pietro Carlo
Rossi, Secondo Guasti, and the Gallos-he chronicles a story driven
by ambition and creativity but realized in a complicated tangle of
immigrant entrepreneurship, class struggle, racial inequality, and
a new world of consumer culture. Skillfully blending regional,
social, and immigration history, Soft Soil, Black Grapes takes us
on an original journey into the cultural construction of ethnic
economies and markets, the social dynamics of American race, and
the fully transnational history of American wine.
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The color of America has changed : how racial diversity shaped civil rights reform in California, 1941-1978
This book examines the Civil Rights Movement in the West in order to bring the West to the Civil Rights Movement. In particular, it explores the challenge that racial diversity in California posed for building a multiracial civil rights movement. Mark Brilliant examines the state's crazy-quilt Jim Crow-style laws and legislation, including fair employment practices, old age pensions for non-citizens, fair housing, school desegregation, and bilingual education. Discrimination in California was not only racial, but was also affected by citizenship status, perceptions of \"foreignness,\" language issues, agricultural vs. industrial occupation, and rural vs. urban residence. These different axes of discrimination pointed to different and sometimes conflicting avenues of legislative and legal redress.
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