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About the Second Printing:The authors have taken the opportunity
presented by the second printing of this book to make a very few
changes in the text. We became conscious, after the book was
published, of occasionally imposing on the reader our own emotional
reactions, and it is these subjective expressions which we have
modified or deleted. A collection of 168 documents in the form of
official letters from military personnel, Indian Agents, and
unsigned articles in California newspapers dating from 1847 to 1865
dealing with the treatment of California Indians will be published
shortly by the Peregrine Press of Santa Barbara. These documents
will provide some of the original material which was used in
writing The Other Californians and may, therefore, be looked on as
a companion volume. From the Preface to the first printing:It is
the authors' hope to provide in this book a social history of
non-Anglo ethnic groups in California's past as illustrated by
attitudes of prejudice and acts of discrimination directed against
these groups. Historians have been aware that racial prejudice was
displayed by California whites, but in general they have treated
the subject as though it was an unimportant one, perhaps because
race prejudice in the last century was not always considered
inhumane in the collective conscience of Americans. We have drawn
our information from many sources, and we have quoted liberally in
the belief that the wording of the original accounts illustrate the
atmosphere of the times much more objectively and forcefully than
anyone could describe it. Long documents have not been incorporated
into the text, but have been collected at the end in a separate
section.
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