{"product_id":"collisions-at-the-crossroads-9780520298835","title":"Collisions at the Crossroads","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In this beautifully-written and clearly-argued work, Genevieve Carpio demonstrates the interconnectedness of mobility and race in inland southern California . . . [and] teaches scholars that mobility has been continuously contested, even as whites have sought to erase this history.\" * Journal of Arizona History *\u003cbr\u003e\"This text earns a place of prominence in the field of American and ethnic studies and contributes greatly to the study of US history.\" * Aztlan *\u003cbr\u003e\"Carpio’s book is a noteworthy contribution to our historical and present-day understanding of how racial hierarchies are used to curtail the rights and privileges of communities of color. . . . Reading a bit like a local version of Howard Zinn’s \u003ci\u003eA People’s History of the United States\u003c\/i\u003e, her writing poetically uncovers racial inequalities in the legal system, while simultaneously portraying a dynamic human experience.\" * Boom California *\u003cbr\u003e\"Carpio's book will no doubt inspire future scholars to consider the relationship between place and space, race, and mobility in a variety of temporal and geographic locations.\" * Journal of the West *\u003cbr\u003e\"Carpio shows how the Riverside Historical Society and many of the Inland Empire’s Route 66 historians manipulate their region’s history by remembering what they want to remember and ignoring the other accounts.\" * LA Taco *\u003cbr\u003e\"This book is a must-read for all scholars of the U.S. West and those who wish to understand the historical prec­edent for limited mobility created by the current carceral state and immigration regime.\" * New Mexico Historical Review *\u003cbr\u003e\"Carpio's attention to people's everyday negotiations with the structures that govern mobility will be of interest to historians of colonial and postcolonial mobility, to cultural historians of bicycles, automobiles, and highways, and to historians of migration, space, and place.\" * Journal of Transport History *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003ci\u003eCollisions at the Crossroads\u003c\/i\u003e . . . presents a critical contribution to our understanding of the relationship between place, mobility, and race.”\u003c\/p\u003e * California History *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 1 • The Rise of the Anglo Fantasy Past\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMobility, Memory, and Racial Hierarchies in\u003cbr\u003e Inland Southern California, 1870–1900\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 2 • On the Move and Fixed in Place\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJapanese Immigrants in the Multiracial Citrus Belt, 1882–1920\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 3 • From Mexican Settlers to Mexican Birds of Passage\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRelational Racial Formation, Citrus Labor,\u003cbr\u003e and Immigration Policy, 1914–1930\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 4 • “Del Fotingo Que Era Mio”\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMexican and Dust Bowl Drivers in\u003cbr\u003e Metropolitan Los Angeles, 1930–1945\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 5 • From Citrus Belt to Inland Empire\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMobility vs. Retrenchment, 1945–1970\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Reemergence of the Anglo Fantasy Past\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49402906739031,"sku":"9780520298835","price":22.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780520298835.jpg?v=1730481817","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/collisions-at-the-crossroads-9780520298835","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}