Racial Fault Lines: The Historical Origins of White Supremacy in California
By Tomas Almaguer.
Description
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 Cal...
ISBN(s)
0520089472, 9780520089471
