... of Salinas made a difference in labor relations and race relations, both in the way the strike came about and, just as importantly, in how and why it was ended. Strikers and their adversaries (growers and labor contractors) were multiracial and multiethnic but shared a common bond in their deep attachment...

... 2023 California Proposition 187 race ethnicity immigration recession nativism Pete Wilson Donald Trump In the final days before the 1994 California state elections, protests against Proposition 187—the inflammatory, anti-immigrant ballot initiative backed by Governor Pete Wilson...

... currently in progress, Race Changes . Before we get to Herb Jeffries’s story, a word must be said about historians’ duty to their subjects. We, both writers and readers, should be careful in how we think about the stories of the people whom we encounter. Are we to judge them, or seek to understand them...

.... The essay also makes original contributions to historical scholarship, most notably in relation to the Third World Liberation Front strike. More generally, the essay provides examples of the growing visibility of LGBT activism, the intersectional character of race, gender, and sexual politics...

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... Bay more broadly have been clearly documented by historians, a legacy of continued substandard housing and services disproportionately affected minority workers and their families. Redlined, or denied rental applications because of race through legal policy and unofficial neighborhood agreements...

...David Torres-Rouff Scholars have chronicled the racialization of American Chinese and the trailing consequences for local racial hierarchies and national immigration policy. In this essay, I instead explore how American Chinese understood themselves in terms of race, and how they reckoned other...