Racial Fault Lines: Historical Origins of White Supremacy

By Tomás Almaguer

Book Overview

This book unravels the ethnic history of California since the late nineteenth-century Anglo-American conquest and the institutionalization of "white supremacy" in the state. Drawing from an array of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520089472
• ISBN13: 9780520089471
• Release Date: December 1994
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

Great yet horrible Historical Facts about California

This book has lots of importatant information in regards to the history of California. You will be amazed by the facts devulged in this book and even compare to present california laws which are still in effect in regards to people of color. Its incredible what people in power will do to keep their power and the effect it has on the people who helped build the state of California. Excellent book and a must have for all, especially Californian's.

almost faultless

Almaguer has given us a useful history of racial attitudes and white supremacy in nineteenth century Cali. Avoiding a "binary"-- or black/white-- understanding of racial relations, Racial Fault Lines traces the unique racial sagas of Mexicans, Chinese, and Indian peoples in their encounters with "white" Californians. Almaguer could do more to investigate interactions among such groups ACROSS the categories of "racial otherness": Mexican, Chinese, and Indian. SOme readers will also question his chronology and wonder to what extent the 'origins of white supremacy' in California might have begun much earlier than the mid-nineteenth century, where his book focuses.