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Uninvited Neighbors - African Americans in Silicon Valley, 1769-1990 (Paperback)
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Uninvited Neighbors - African Americans in Silicon Valley, 1769-1990 (Paperback)
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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