Racial Fault Lines af Tomás Almaguer (Bog)

Forfatter: Tomás Almaguer

Sprog: Engelsk

Antal sider: 300

Forlag: Univ of California Press

Udgivelsesår: 1994

"An excellent summary and interpretation of race relations in nineteenth-century California. Empirically rich and theoretically sophisticated, it is the last and best word on the historical origins of the racial hierarchy that contemporary multiculturalists are struggling to overcome."--George Fredrickson, Stanford University "Sometime soon in the 21st century, all of California's peoples will belong to minorities, and Almaguer's pathbreaking comparative history is indispensable for understanding how and why this society became so racially diverse. His study expands the borders of multicultural scholarship."--Ronald Takaki, University of California, Berkeley "Evocatively written and theoretically compelling, "Racial Fault Lines represents a benchmark in the writing of U.S. history. Almaguer blends sociological paradigms with rich historical narratives in his perspicacious examination of racial and class formation among nineteenth-century Californians. Me

Titel: Racial Fault Lines

Genre: Historisk

Sammendrag: Racial Fault Lines unravels the ethnic history of California since the late nineteenth-century Anglo-American institutionalization of 'white supremacy' in the state. Assessing the struggles for control of resources, status, and political legitimacy between the European American and Native American, Mexican, African American, Chinese, and Japanese populations, Almaguer draws from an array of primary and secondary sources as he weaves a detailed, disturbing portrait of ethnic, racial, and class relationships during this tumultuous time.

Type: Paperback