"[Menchaca's] work buttresses the argument that race is alive and
well and that twenty-five years of affirmative action policies have
not eliminated the legacy of segregation... [This book] provides an
excellent view of social relations in one place across time.
Compelling and thought-provoking, the study argues for sustaining
public policies that challenge racist discrimination." -- Journal
of American History
People of Mexican descent and Anglo Americans have lived
together in the U.S. Southwest for over a hundred years, yet
relations between them remain strained, as shown by recent
controversies over social services for undocumented aliens in
California. In this study, covering the Spanish colonial period to
the present day, Martha Menchaca delves deeply into interethnic
relations in Santa Paula, California, to document how the
residential, social, and school segregation of Mexican-origin
people became institutionalized in a representative California
town.
Menchaca lived in Santa Paula during the 1980s, and interviews
with residents add a vivid human dimension to her book. She argues
that social segregation in Santa Paula has evolved into a system of
social apartness-- that is, a cultural system controlled by Anglo
Americans that designates the proper times and places where
Mexican-origin people can socially interact with Anglos.
This first historical ethnographic case study of a
Mexican-origin community will be important reading across a
spectrum of disciplines, including anthropology, sociology, race
and ethnicity, Latino studies, and American culture.
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