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Uninvited Neighbors - African Americans in Silicon Valley, 1769–1990 (Hardcover)
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Uninvited Neighbors - African Americans in Silicon Valley, 1769–1990 (Hardcover)
Series: Race and Culture in the American West Series
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In the late 1960s, African American protests and Black Power
demonstrations in California's Santa Clara County--including what's
now called Silicon Valley--took many observers by surprise. After
all, as far back as the 1890s, the California constitution had
legally abolished most forms of racial discrimination, and
subsequent legal reform had surely taken care of the rest. White
Americans might even have wondered where the black activists in the
late sixties were coming from--because, beginning with the writings
of Fredrick Jackson Turner, the most influential histories of the
American West simply left out African Americans or, later,
portrayed them as a passive and insignificant presence.
"Uninvited Neighbors" puts black people back into the picture and
dispels cherished myths about California's racial history. Reaching
from the Spanish era to the valley's emergence as a center of the
high-tech industry, this is the first comprehensive history of the
African American experience in the Santa Clara Valley.
Author Herbert G. Ruffin II's study presents the black experience
in a new way, with a focus on how, despite their smaller numbers
and obscure presence, African Americans in the South Bay forged
communities that had a regional and national impact
disproportionate to their population. As the region industrialized
and spawned suburbs during and after World War II, its black
citizens built institutions such as churches, social clubs, and
civil rights organizations and challenged socioeconomic
restrictions. Ruffin explores the quest of the area's black people
for the postwar American Dream. The book also addresses the
scattering of the black community during the region's late yet
rapid urban growth after 1950, which led to the creation of several
distinct black suburban communities clustered in metropolitan San
Jose.
Ruffin treats people of color as agents of their own development
and survival in a region that was always multiracial and where
slavery and Jim Crow did not predominate, but where the white
embrace of racial justice and equality was often insincere. The
result offers a new view of the intersection of African American
history and the history of the American West.
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