...Romeo Guzmán Reflecting on the stories behind a belt buckle that he inherited from his father, the author traces his father’s history and his family’s several migrations across the U.S.-Mexico border. The belt buckle depicts a bull and rider, and the article discusses the history of charrería...

... in the shadow of the Great Depression. The Pattersons were part of the larger, second wave of “Okies, Arkies, and Texies” who migrated during the 1940s. The Great Central Valley, at 15,000,000 acres about the size of Egypt, held the promise of at least seasonal work, even for unskilled laborers—especially...

...-Americans Central Valley migration Oklahoma, Arkansas Texas C O N T E S T E D G R O U N D matt black The Black Okies Lost history amid the tules O ne Sunday in 1996, about a year into my project photographing California sCentral Valley, I found myself lost on the dry bottom of Tulare Lake. Mileafter...

... California migrations of the last half-century, that better life has become a nightmare of diminishing returns. Not everyone is suffering, of course. Multimillionaires formerly of Silicon Valley have reinvented themselves in the hot, new tech Valhalla of San Francisco, and bling-obsessed, reality...

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... Studies migration labor agriculture boom | w i n t e r 2 011 31 Boom: A Journal of California, Vol. 1, Number 4, pps 31 44. ISSN 2153-8018, electronic ISSN 2153-764X. © 2011 by the Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. Please direct all requests for permission to photocopy...

... debates. This history, he argues, should help us to think more creatively and humanely about the problem of the border. © 2011 by the Regents of the University of California 2011 California State Flag 19th Century migration border boom | w i n t e r 2 011 45 albert hurtado Their Flag, Too...

... emancipation, this essay highlights the deep and allied inequities rooted in the rise of immigration control and mass incarceration. © 2011 by the Regents of the University of California 2011 prisoners migration undocumented civil rights immigration control incarceration 54 boomca l i f o r n i...

...Alexander I. Olson; Guillermo Nericcio García This article uses California’s long history of migration to question efforts by local Tea Party activists to push for an anti-immigration law modeled after Arizona’s notorious S.B. 1070. Focusing on Mary Hunter Austin’s description of a multilingual...

... the region and created what has been called “cultural and domestic abandonment.” © 2011 by the Regents of the University of California 2011 Oaxaca Migration Alejandro Santiago boom | FA L L 2 011 57 Boom: A Journal of California, Vol. 1, Number 3, pps 57 61. ISSN 2153-8018, electronic ISSN 2153...

...Susan Straight Eating at Los Angeles’s iconic restaurant, The Proud Bird, and considering the city as a nexus of migration and a crucible of belonging. ©© 2011 by the Regents of the University of California 2011 migration Los Angeles memory kinship race boom | FA L L 2 011 1 Boom...