During the Great Depression, California became a wellspring for
some of the era's most inventive and imaginative political
movements. In response to the global catastrophe, the multiracial
laboring populations who formed the basis of California's economy
gave rise to an oppositional culture that challenged the modes of
racialism, nationalism, and rationalism that had guided
modernization during preceding decades. In Rebel Imaginaries
Elizabeth E. Sine tells the story of that oppositional culture's
emergence, revealing how aggrieved Californians asserted political
visions that embraced difference, fostered a sense of shared
vulnerability, and underscored the interconnectedness and
interdependence of global struggles for human dignity. From the
Imperial Valley's agricultural fields to Hollywood, seemingly
disparate communities of African American, Native American,
Mexican, Filipinx, Asian, and White working-class people were
linked by their myriad struggles against Depression-era capitalism
and patterns of inequality and marginalization. In tracing the
diverse coalition of those involved in labor strikes, citizenship
and immigration reform, and articulating and imagining freedom
through artistic practice, Sine demonstrates that the era's social
movements were far more heterogeneous, multivalent, and contested
than previously understood.
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