The Mexican outsiders : a community history of marginalization and discrimination in California / Martha Menchaca.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Menchaca, Martha, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mexican Americans--California--Santa Paula--Social conditions.

Mexican Americans.

Mexicans--California--Santa Paula--Social conditions.

Mexicans.

Discrimination--California--Santa Paula.

Discrimination.

Racism--California--Santa Paula.

Racism.

Mexican Americans--California--Social conditions--Case studies.

Mexicans--California--Social conditions--Case studies.

Discrimination--California--Case studies.

Racism--California--Case studies.

Santa Paula (Calif.)--Race relations.

Santa Paula (Calif.).

California--Race relations--Case studies.

California.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (250 pages) : illustrations, maps

Place of Publication:

Austin, Texas : University of Texas Press, 2004.

Summary:

People of Mexican descent and Anglo Americans have lived together in the U.S. Southwest for over a hundred years, yet relations between them remain strained, as shown by recent controversies over social services for undocumented aliens in California. In this study, covering the Spanish colonial period to the present day, Martha Menchaca delves deeply into interethnic relations in Santa Paula, California, to document how the residential, social, and school segregation of Mexican-origin people became institutionalized in a representative California town. Menchaca lived in Santa Paula during the 1980s, and interviews with residents add a vivid human dimension to her book. She argues that social segregation in Santa Paula has evolved into a system of social apartness—that is, a cultural system controlled by Anglo Americans that designates the proper times and places where Mexican-origin people can socially interact with Anglos. This first historical ethnographic case study of a Mexican-origin community will be important reading across a spectrum of disciplines, including anthropology, sociology, race and ethnicity, Latino studies, and American culture.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Illustrations

MAPS

TABLES

Acknowledgments

Introduction

CHAPTER ONE Political Relations and Land Tenure Cycles in Santa Paula: Chumash Indians, Mexicans, and Anglo Americans

CHAPTER TWO White Racism, Religious Segregation, and Violence against Mexicans, 1913 to 1930

CHAPTER THREE School Segregation: The Social Reproduction of Inequality, 1870 to 1934

CHAPTER FOUR Mexican Resistance to the Peonage System: Movements to Unionize Farm Labor

CHAPTER FIVE Movements to Desegregate the Mexican Community, the 1940s and 1950s

CHAPTER SIX The Segmentation of the Farm Labor Market, 1965 to 1976

CHAPTER SEVEN Interethnic City Council Politics: The Case of the Housing Cooperative Movement

CHAPTER EIGHT Modern Racism: Social Apartness and the Evolution of a Segregated Society

CHAPTER NINE The Impact of Anglo American Racism on Mexican-Origin Intragroup Relations

CHAPTER TEN Historical Reconstruction

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-292-79973-X

OCLC:

1286808100