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Racial Fault Lines unravels the ethnic history of California since the late-nineteenth-century Anglo-American institutionalization of "white supremacy" in the state. Assessing the struggles for control of resources, status, and political legitimacy between the European American and the Native American, Mexican/African American, Chinese, and Japanese populations, Almaguer draws from an array of primary and secondary sources as he weaves a detailed, disturbing portrait of ethnic, racial, and class relationships during this tumultuous time. "Racial Fault Lines is an excellent summary and interpretation of race relations in nineteenthcentury California. Empirically rich and theoretically sophisticated, it is the last and best word on the historical origins of the racial hierarchy that contemporary multiculturalists are struggling to overcome." — George Fredrickson "Sometime soon in the 21st century, all of California's peoples will belong to minorities, and Almaguer's pathbreaking comparative history is indispensable for understanding how and why this society became so racially diverse. His study expands the borders of multicultural scholarship." — Ronald Takaki "Evocatively written an

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Author

Tomás Almaguer

Publisher

University of California Press

Published

1994

Language

EN

ISBN

9780520089471

Category

history

Subjects

Anthropology, History, Sociology

Rating

3.85 / 5 (47 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13