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

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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

About the Author

Martha Menchaca is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Texas at Austin.

Reviews

[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*