Book
The Mexican outsiders: a community history of marginalization and discrimination in California
University of Texas Press • Austin, Tx • Published In 1995 • Pages:
By: Menchaca, Martha.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is an excellent history and ethnography of ethnic relations in the southern California city of Santa Paula. Through archival research and oral histories, Menchacca, who grew up in the town she studies, uncovers the hidden history of Mexican-Americans in the city and their bitter conflicts and struggles with Anglo-Americans. She documents how the original Mexican settlers were illegally dispossessed of their land after the Mexican War, creating a landless labor force for a growing Anglo-American-controlled citrus industry. She chronicles the often violent labor and racial relations of the city, including the Klu Klux Klan, bracero program, which opened the employment to migrant farm workers from Mexico, and the failed attempts to unionize farm workers. She discusses how racial discrimination continues today through segregated housing, schools, and churches. She also discusses the tensions and divergent attitudes within the Mexican-American community between new immigrants and long-time residents.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- External migration
- Cultural identity and pride
- Settlement patterns
- Housing
- Real property
- Labor
- Ethnic stratification
- Political movements
- Congregations
- Education system
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Chicanos
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2002
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Regional, Ethnic and Diaspora Cultures
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Ian Skoggard ; 2001
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1986-1991
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1769-1986
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Santa Paula, Ventura County, California, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Martha Menchaca
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-244) and index
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 94046190
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Mexican Americans