Tracing the history of intercultural struggle and cooperation in
the citrus belt of Greater Los Angeles, Matt Garcia explores the
social and cultural forces that helped make the city the expansive
and diverse metropolis that it is today.
As the citrus-growing regions of the San Gabriel and Pomona
Valleys in eastern Los Angeles County expanded during the early
twentieth century, the agricultural industry there developed along
segregated lines, primarily between white landowners and Mexican
and Asian laborers. Initially, these communities were sharply
divided. But Los Angeles, unlike other agricultural regions, saw
important opportunities for intercultural exchange develop around
the arts and within multiethnic community groups. Whether fostered
in such informal settings as dance halls and theaters or in such
formal organizations as the Intercultural Council of Claremont or
the Southern California Unity Leagues, these interethnic encounters
formed the basis for political cooperation to address labor
discrimination and solve problems of residential and educational
segregation. Though intercultural collaborations were not always
successful, Garcia argues that they constitute an important chapter
not only in Southern California's social and cultural development
but also in the larger history of American race relations.
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