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Salinas - A History of Race and Resilience in an Agricultural City (Hardcover)
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Salinas - A History of Race and Resilience in an Agricultural City (Hardcover)
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An ambitious history of a California city that epitomizes the
history of race relations in modern America. Although much has been
written about the urban-rural divide in America, the city of
Salinas, California, like so many other places in the state and
nation whose economies are based on agriculture, is at once rural
and urban. For generations, Salinas has been associated with
migrant farmworkers from different racial and ethnic groups. This
broad-ranging history of "the Salad Bowl of the World" tells a
complex story of community-building in a multiracial, multiethnic
city where diversity has been both a cornerstone of civic identity
and, from the perspective of primarily white landowners and
pragmatic agricultural industrialists, essential for maintaining
the local workforce. Carol Lynn McKibben draws on extensive
original research, including oral histories and never-before-seen
archives of local business groups, tracing Salinas's ever-changing
demographics and the challenges and triumphs of Chinese, Japanese,
Filipino, and Mexican immigrants, as well as Depression-era Dust
Bowl migrants and white ethnic Europeans. McKibben takes us from
Salinas's nineteenth-century beginnings as the economic engine of
California's Central Coast up through the disproportionate impact
of Covid-19 on communities of color today, especially farmworkers
who already live on the margins. Throughout the century-plus of
Salinas history that McKibben explores, she shows how the political
and economic stability of Salinas rested on the ability of nonwhite
minorities to achieve a measure of middle-class success and
inclusion in the cultural life of the city, without overturning a
system based in white supremacy. This timely book deepens our
understanding of race relations, economic development, and the
impact of changing demographics on regional politics in urban
California and in the United States as a whole.
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