Racial fault lines : the historical origins of white supremacy in California / Tomas Almaguer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Almaguer, Tomás, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Racism--California--History--Race relations.

Racism.

White supremacy movements--California--History.

White supremacy movements.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (304 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

2023.

Berkeley, California : University of California Press, [2009]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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, Tomás Almaguer weaves a detailed, disturbing portrait of ethnic, racial, and class relationships during this tumultuous time. A new preface looks at the invaluable contribution the book has made to our understanding of ethnicity and class in America and of the social construction of "race" in the Far West.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface to the 2009 Edition

Acknowledgments

Introduction

CHAPTER ONE. "We Desire Only a White Population in California"

CHAPTER TWO. "The True Significance of the Word 'White' "

CHAPTER THREE. "The Ravages of Time and the Intrusion of Modern American Civilization"

CHAPTER FOUR. "Before the March of Civilization He Must Give Way"

CHAPTER FIVE. "Unfit and Incapable of Being Associated with Whites on Any Terms of Equality"

CHAPTER SIX. "They Can Be Hired in Masses; They Can Be Managed and Controlled like Unthinking Slaves"

CHAPTER SEVEN. "In the Hands of People Whose Experience Has Been Only to Obey a Master Rather than Think and Manage for Themselves"

Epilogue

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 25. Nov 2020)

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-520-94290-6

OCLC:

1224279108