Martha Menchaca

The Mexican Outsiders

A Community History of Marginalization and Discrimination in California

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Produktbeschreibung

People of Mexican descent and Anglo Americans have lived together in the U.S. Southwest for over a hundred years, yet relations between them remain strained, as shown by recent controversies over social services for undocumented aliens in California. In this study, covering the Spanish colonial period to the present day, Martha Menchaca delves deeply into interethnic relations in Santa Paula, California, to document how the residential, social, and school segregation of Mexican-origin people became institutionalized in a representative California town. Menchaca lived in Santa Paula during the 1980s, and interviews with residents add a vivid human dimension to her book. She argues that social segregation in Santa Paula has evolved into a system of social apartness-that is, a cultural system controlled by Anglo Americans that designates the proper times and places where Mexican-origin people can socially interact with Anglos. 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Texas Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 1995
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 446g
• ISBN-13: 9780292751743
• ISBN-10: 0292751745
• Artikelnr.: 21322615

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

* 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