California has been invaded by three imperial powers: Spain,
Mexico, and the United States. "Deep California" examines in depth
the lingering psychological traumas and motifs emanating from that
long history of conquest. These unhealed events have not been left
in the past: they recur symbolically again and again, growing in
intensity as the overbuilt land and its distracted occupiers
unconsciously but definitively demonstrate that environmental
justice and social justice can no longer be thought of as separate.
Pacing crusaders and colonizers from county to county along El
Camino Real, "Deep California" studies the lingering impact of
continuous oppression of people and places as images and themes of
displacement and exile filter down into architecture, agriculture,
politics, art, culture, psychology, and even folklore and dream.
Yet within the shadows cast over California also dwell resistance,
humor, irony, tragedy, and hope for more heartfelt and soulful
connections to this story-rich "land of the sundown sea."
"History" is an inadequate term for such a sweeping and deep
discovery of how the past informs the present. This work deserves
to be read widely by all Californians and Americans, and taken to
heart, and the hard lessons applied to all places we inhabit on
this stolen land.
-Lesley Thomas, author of "Flight of the Goose (Far Eastern Press,
2005)"
"A monumental and much-needed study in depth of the conquest,
occupation, traumatization, and animation of the mission cities and
counties of coastal California, places which have worked their way
into our unsuspecting psyches."
-Linda Buzzell, MA, MFT, co-editor of "Ecotherapy: Healing with
Nature in Mind (Sierra Club Books, 2009)"
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