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Book SynopsisHow the residential, social, and school segregation of Mexican-origin people became institutionalized in a representative California town.
Trade Review[Menchaca's] work buttresses the argument that race is alive and well and that twenty-five years of affirmative action policies have not eliminated the legacy of segregation... [This book] provides an excellent view of social relations in one place across time. Compelling and thought-provoking, the study argues for sustaining public policies that challenge racist discrimination. * Journal of American History *
Table of Contents
- 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
