Collisions at the crossroads : how place and mobility make race / Genevieve Carpio.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Carpio, Genevieve, Author.

Series:

American crossroads

American Crossroads ; 53

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Migration, Internal--California--Inland Empire.

Migration, Internal.

Inland Empire (Calif.)--Race relations.

Inland Empire (Calif.).

Inland Empire (Calif.)--Emigration and immigration--Government policy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

There are few places where mobility has shaped identity as widely as the American West, but some locations and populations sit at its major crossroads, maintaining control over place and mobility, labor and race. In Collisions at the Crossroads, Genevieve Carpio argues that mobility, both permission to move freely and prohibitions on movement, helped shape racial formation in the eastern suburbs of Los Angeles and the Inland Empire throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. By examining policies and forces as different as historical societies, Indian boarding schools, bicycle ordinances, immigration policy, incarceration, traffic checkpoints, and Route 66 heritage, she shows how local authorities constructed a racial hierarchy by allowing some people to move freely while placing limits on the mobility of others. Highlighting the ways people of color have negotiated their place within these systems, Carpio reveals a compelling and perceptive analysis of spatial mobility through physical movement and residence.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

ILLUSTRATIONS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Introduction

1. The Rise of the Anglo Fantasy Past

2. On the Move and Fixed in Place

3. From Mexican Settlers to Mexican Birds of Passage

4. "Del Fotingo Que Era Mio"

5. From Citrus Belt to Inland Empire

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

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Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9780520970823

0520970829

OCLC:

1060178815