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SCHOOL: ADVISORS: COMMITTEE MEMBERS: MPACT Status: Fully Complete Title: Ethnic crossings: The making of a non-white America in the second quarter of twentieth century California Abstract: This study traces the making of "non-whiteness" in California in the second quarter of the twentieth century. Drawing upon ethnic newspapers, memoirs, oral histories, personal papers, court records, and sociological accounts, it traces the gradual coalescence of minorities around ideas and values distinct from those of white Americans. Since its incorporation into the United States, but especially in this century, California has exhibited a special ethnic and racial diversity. Its peoples have displayed a much wider variety of cultural differences than inhabitants of other parts of the United States. In addition to European immigrants, the state attracted a large number of Mexicans, Japanese, Filipinos, and Chinese. It also drew waves of black southerners to its coast. Subject to similar discrimination in employment, housing, and sometimes education, these minorities bumped into one another with great regularity. Their clustering in the same areas foreshadowed the dynamics of the state and nation in 2002. From an array of neighborhood interactions in the years just before and after World War II, I see emerging pan-ethnic sensibilities and nascent political collaborations among nonwhite Californians. |
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