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Racial fault lines : the historical origins of white supremacy in California
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- Creator
- Tomás Almaguer
- Other Title
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- Racial faultlines
- Format
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Berkeley : University of California Press, [1994]
- ©1994
- Physical Details
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- xii, 282 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780520075979, 0520075978, 9780520089471, 0520089472
- OCLC
- ocm29359844
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-274) and index.
- 1. "We Desire Only a White Population in California": The Transformation of Mexican California in Historical-Sociological Perspective -- Pt. 1. Racial Ambiguities, Class Realities, and "Half Civilized" Mexicans in Anglo California. 2. "The True Significance of the Word 'White'" 3. "The Ravages of Time and the Intrusion of Modern American Civilization" -- Pt. 2. White Civilization's Crusade Against the "Devils of the Forest" 4. "Before the March of Civilization He Must Give Way" 5. "Unfit and Incapable of Being Associated with Whites on Any Terms of Equality" -- Pt. 3. Racialized Class Conflict and Asian Immigrants in Anglo California. 6. "They Can Be Hired in Masses; They Can Be Managed and Controlled like Unthinking Slaves" 7. "In the Hands of People Whose Experience Has Been Only to Obey a Master Rather than Think and Manage for Themselves"