Other Californians : Prejudice and Discrimination under Spain, Mexico, and the United States to 1920 / Heizer/Almquist; ed. by Robert F. Heizer, Alan J. Almquist.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Heizer/Almquist, Author.

Contributor:

Almquist, Alan J., Editor.

Heizer, Robert F., Editor.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (278 p.) : 4 line illustrations

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [1977]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

About the Second Printing: The authors have taken the opportunity presented by the second printing of this book to make a very few changes in the text. We became conscious, after the book was published, of occasionally imposing on the reader our own emotional reactions, and it is these subjective expressions which we have modified or deleted. A collection of 168 documents in the form of official letters from military personnel, Indian Agents, and unsigned articles in California newspapers dating from 1847 to 1865 dealing with the treatment of California Indians will be published shortly by the Peregrine Press of Santa Barbara. These documents will provide some of the original material which was used in writing The Other Californians and may, therefore, be looked on as a companion volume. From the Preface to the first printing: It is the authors' hope to provide in this book a social history of non-Anglo ethnic groups in California's past as illustrated by attitudes of prejudice and acts of discrimination directed against these groups. Historians have been aware that racial prejudice was displayed by California whites, but in general they have treated the subject as though it was an unimportant one, perhaps because race prejudice in the last century was not always considered inhumane in the collective conscience of Americans. We have drawn our information from many sources, and we have "ed liberally in the belief that the wording of the original accounts illustrate the atmosphere of the times much more objectively and forcefully than anyone could describe it. Long documents have not been incorporated into the text, but have been collected at the end in a separate section.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface to the Paperback Edition

Preface

I The Indian Under Spain and Mexico, 1769-1846

II The Indian and the White Californian, 1850s to 1870s

III The Indian and the Lands of His Fathers

IV Constitutional Debate on Race and Rights, 184g

V Minorities and the Court

VI The Mexican Californians

VII The Early Legal Status of the Chinese

VIII Words and Acts Against the Japanese

IX Summary

List of Documents

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 09. Dez 2023)

ISBN:

0-520-35250-5

OCLC:

1414456933