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This book unravels the ethnic history of California since the late nineteenth-century Anglo-American conquest and the institutionalization of 'white supremacy' in the state. Drawing from an array of primary and secondary sources, Tomas Almaguer weaves a detailed, disturbing portrait of ethnic, racial, and class relationships during this tumultuous time. A new preface looks at the invaluable contribution this book has made to our understanding of ethnicity and class in America and of the social construction of 'race' in the Far West.
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This book unravels the ethnic history of California since the late nineteenth-century Anglo-American conquest and institutionalization of 'white supremacy' in the state. Almaguer comparatively assesses the struggles for control of resources, status, and political legitimacy between the European American and the Native American, Mexican, African-American, Chinese, and Japanese populations. Drawing from an array of primary and secondary sources, he weaves a detailed, disturbing portrait of ethnic, racial, and class relationships during this tumultuous time. The U.S. annexation of California in 1848 and the simultaneous discovery of gold sparked rapid and diverse waves of immigration westward, displacing the already established pastoral Mexican society. Almaguer shows how the confrontation between white immigrants and the Mexican ranchero and working class populations was also a contestation over racial status in which racialization influenced and was in turn influenced by class position in the changing economic order. Partly because of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, which granted U.S. citizenship and other rights, parts of the Mexican population were integrated into the emerging Anglo society more easily than other racialized groups. A case study of Ventura County highlights declining political and economic fortunes of the Mexican elite while showing how Mexican, Japanese, Chinese, and Indian populations were permanently relegated to the bottom of the class structure as unskilled manual workers. The fate of the Native American population provides perhaps the most extreme example of white supremacy during the period. Popular conceptions of Native Americans as 'uncivilized' and 'heathen', justified the killing of more than 8,000 men, women, and children between 1848 and 1870. Many survivors were incorporated at the periphery of Anglo society, often as indentured laborers and virtual slaves. Underpinning the institutional structuring of white supremacy were notions such as 'manifest destiny', the inherent good of the capitalist wage-system, and the superiority of Christianity and Euro-American culture, all of which helped to marginalize non white groups in California and justify Anglo-American class dominance. As other racialized groups assumed new roles, Almaguer assesses the complex interplay between economic forces and racial attitudes that simultaneously structured and allocated 'group position' in the new social hierarchy. California remains a contested racial frontier, as political struggles over the rights and opportunities of different groups continue to reverberate along racial lines. "Racial Fault Lines" is an invaluable contribution to our understanding of ethnicity and class in America, and the social construction of 'race' in the Far West.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)

This book unravels the ethnic history of California since the late nineteenth-century Anglo-American conquest and institutionalization of 'white supremacy' in the state. Almaguer comparatively assesses the struggles for control of resources, status, and political legitimacy between the European American and the Native American, Mexican, African-American, Chinese, and Japanese populations. Drawing from an array of primary and secondary sources, he weaves a detailed, disturbing portrait of ethnic, racial, and class relationships during this tumultuous time. The U.S. annexation of California in 1848 and the simultaneous discovery of gold sparked rapid and diverse waves of immigration westward, displacing the already established pastoral Mexican society. Almaguer shows how the confrontation between white immigrants and the Mexican ranchero and working class populations was also a contestation over racial status in which racialization influenced and was in turn influenced by class position in the changing economic order. Partly because of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, which granted U.S. citizenship and other rights, parts of the Mexican population were integrated into the emerging Anglo society more easily than other racialized groups. A case study of Ventura County highlights declining political and economic fortunes of the Mexican elite while showing how Mexican, Japanese, Chinese, and Indian populations were permanently relegated to the bottom of the class structure as unskilled manual workers. The fate of the Native American population provides perhaps the most extreme example of white supremacy during the period. Popular conceptions of Native Americans as 'uncivilized' and 'heathen', justified the killing of more than 8,000 men, women, and children between 1848 and 1870. Many survivors were incorporated at the periphery of Anglo society, often as indentured laborers and virtual slaves. Underpinning the institutional structuring of white supremacy were notions such as 'manifest destiny', the inherent good of the capitalist wage-system, and the superiority of Christianity and Euro-American culture, all of which helped to marginalize non white groups in California and justify Anglo-American class dominance. As other racialized groups assumed new roles, Almaguer assesses the complex interplay between economic forces and racial attitudes that simultaneously structured and allocated 'group position' in the new social hierarchy. California remains a contested racial frontier, as political struggles over the rights and opportunities of different groups continue to reverberate along racial lines. "Racial Fault Lines" is an invaluable contribution to our understanding of ethnicity and class in America, and the social construction of 'race' in the Far West.
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• Figures and Tables Introduction
• PART 1: HISPANICS, LATINOS, CHICANOS, BORICUAS: WHAT DO NAMES MEAN?
• 1. What's in a Name? - Ramon A. Gutierrez
• 2. (Re)constructing Latinidad - Frances R. Aparicio
• 3. Celia's Shoes - Frances Negron-Muntaner
• PART 2: THE ORIGINS OF LATINOS IN THE UNITED STATES
• 4. The Latino Crucible - Ramon A. Gutierrez
• 5. A Historic Overview of Latino Immigration and the Demographic Transformation of the United States - David G. Gutierrez
• 6. Late-Twentieth-Century Immigration and U.S. Foreign Policy - Lillian Guerra
• PART 3: THE CONUNDRUMS OF RACE
• 7. Neither White nor Black - Jorge Duany
• 8. Hair Race-ing - Ginetta E. B. Candelario
• 9. Race, Racialization, and Latino Populations in the United States - Tomas Almaguer
• PART 4: WORK AND LIFE CHANCES
• 10. Mexicans' Quotidian Struggles with Migration and Poverty - Patricia Zavella
• 11. Economies of Dignity - Nicholas de Genova and Ana Y. Ramos-Zayas
• 12. Not So Golden? - Manuel Pastor Jr.
• PART 5: CLASS, GENERATION, AND ASSIMILATION
• 13. Latino Lives - Luis Ricardo Fraga et al.
• 14. Generations of Exclusion - Edward Telles and Vilma Ortiz
• 15. Latinos in the Power Elite - Richard L. Zweigenhaft and G. William Domhoff
• 16. Postscript - Richard L. Zweigenhaft and G. William Domhoff
• PART 6: GENDER AND SEXUALITIES
• 17. A History of Latina/o Sexualities - Ramon A. Gutierrez
• 18. Gender Strategies, Settlement, and Transnational Life in the First Generation - Robert Courtney Smith
• 19. "She's Old School like That" - Lorena Garcia
• 20. Longing and Same-Sex Desire among Mexican Men - Tomas Almaguer
• PART 7: LATINO POLITICS
• 21. Latina/o Politics and Participation - Lisa Garcia Bedolla
• 22. Young Latinos in an Aging American Society - David E. Hayes-Bautista, Werner Schink, and Jorge Chapa
• 23. Afterword - David E. Hayes-Bautista, Werner Schink, and Jorge Chapa
• 24. Life after Prison for Hispanics - Martin Guevara Urbina
• 25. Climate of Fear - Southern Poverty Law Center
• 26. What Explains the Immigrant Rights Marches of 2006? - Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo and Angelica Salas
• 27. Wet Foot, Dry Foot ... Wrong Foot - Ann Louise Bardach Contributors Credits Index.
• (source: Nielsen Book Data)

The New Latino Studies Reader is designed as a contemporary, updated, multifaceted collection of writings that bring to force the exciting, necessary scholarship of the last decades. Its aim is to introduce a new generation of students to a wide-ranging set of essays that helps them gain a truer understanding of what it's like to be a Latino in the United States. With the reader, students explore the sociohistorical formation of Latinos as a distinct panethnic group in the United States, delving into issues of class formation; social stratification; racial, gender, and sexual identities; and politics and cultural production. And while other readers now in print may discuss Mexican Americans, Puerto Ricans, Cubans and Central Americans as distinct groups with unique experiences, this text explores both the commonalities and the differences that structure the experiences of Latino Americans. Timely, thorough, and thought-provoking, The New Latino Studies Reader provides a genuine view of the Latino experience as a whole.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)

• Figures and Tables Introduction
• PART 1: HISPANICS, LATINOS, CHICANOS, BORICUAS: WHAT DO NAMES MEAN?
• 1. What's in a Name? - Ramon A. Gutierrez
• 2. (Re)constructing Latinidad - Frances R. Aparicio
• 3. Celia's Shoes - Frances Negron-Muntaner
• PART 2: THE ORIGINS OF LATINOS IN THE UNITED STATES
• 4. The Latino Crucible - Ramon A. Gutierrez
• 5. A Historic Overview of Latino Immigration and the Demographic Transformation of the United States - David G. Gutierrez
• 6. Late-Twentieth-Century Immigration and U.S. Foreign Policy - Lillian Guerra
• PART 3: THE CONUNDRUMS OF RACE
• 7. Neither White nor Black - Jorge Duany
• 8. Hair Race-ing - Ginetta E. B. Candelario
• 9. Race, Racialization, and Latino Populations in the United States - Tomas Almaguer
• PART 4: WORK AND LIFE CHANCES
• 10. Mexicans' Quotidian Struggles with Migration and Poverty - Patricia Zavella
• 11. Economies of Dignity - Nicholas de Genova and Ana Y. Ramos-Zayas
• 12. Not So Golden? - Manuel Pastor Jr.
• PART 5: CLASS, GENERATION, AND ASSIMILATION
• 13. Latino Lives - Luis Ricardo Fraga et al.
• 14. Generations of Exclusion - Edward Telles and Vilma Ortiz
• 15. Latinos in the Power Elite - Richard L. Zweigenhaft and G. William Domhoff
• 16. Postscript - Richard L. Zweigenhaft and G. William Domhoff
• PART 6: GENDER AND SEXUALITIES
• 17. A History of Latina/o Sexualities - Ramon A. Gutierrez
• 18. Gender Strategies, Settlement, and Transnational Life in the First Generation - Robert Courtney Smith
• 19. "She's Old School like That" - Lorena Garcia
• 20. Longing and Same-Sex Desire among Mexican Men - Tomas Almaguer
• PART 7: LATINO POLITICS
• 21. Latina/o Politics and Participation - Lisa Garcia Bedolla
• 22. Young Latinos in an Aging American Society - David E. Hayes-Bautista, Werner Schink, and Jorge Chapa
• 23. Afterword - David E. Hayes-Bautista, Werner Schink, and Jorge Chapa
• 24. Life after Prison for Hispanics - Martin Guevara Urbina
• 25. Climate of Fear - Southern Poverty Law Center
• 26. What Explains the Immigrant Rights Marches of 2006? - Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo and Angelica Salas
• 27. Wet Foot, Dry Foot ... Wrong Foot - Ann Louise Bardach Contributors Credits Index.
• (source: Nielsen Book Data)

The New Latino Studies Reader is designed as a contemporary, updated, multifaceted collection of writings that bring to force the exciting, necessary scholarship of the last decades. Its aim is to introduce a new generation of students to a wide-ranging set of essays that helps them gain a truer understanding of what it's like to be a Latino in the United States. With the reader, students explore the sociohistorical formation of Latinos as a distinct panethnic group in the United States, delving into issues of class formation; social stratification; racial, gender, and sexual identities; and politics and cultural production. And while other readers now in print may discuss Mexican Americans, Puerto Ricans, Cubans and Central Americans as distinct groups with unique experiences, this text explores both the commonalities and the differences that structure the experiences of Latino Americans. Timely, thorough, and thought-provoking, The New Latino Studies Reader provides a genuine view of the Latino experience as a whole.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)