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Seaside (Hardcover)
Carol Lynn Mckibben, Seaside History Project
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Discovery Miles 6 530
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An ambitious history of a California city that epitomizes the
history of race relations in modern America. Although much has been
written about the urban–rural divide in America, the city of
Salinas, California, like so many other places in the state and
nation whose economies are based on agriculture, is at once rural
and urban. For generations, Salinas has been associated with
migrant farmworkers from different racial and ethnic groups. This
broad-ranging history of "the Salad Bowl of the World" tells a
complex story of community-building in a multiracial, multiethnic
city where diversity has been both a cornerstone of civic identity
and, from the perspective of primarily white landowners and
pragmatic agricultural industrialists, essential for maintaining
the local workforce. Carol Lynn McKibben draws on extensive
original research, including oral histories and never-before-seen
archives of local business groups, tracing Salinas's ever-changing
demographics and the challenges and triumphs of Chinese, Japanese,
Filipino, and Mexican immigrants, as well as Depression-era Dust
Bowl migrants and white ethnic Europeans. McKibben takes us from
Salinas's nineteenth-century beginnings as the economic engine of
California's Central Coast up through the disproportionate impact
of Covid-19 on communities of color today, especially farmworkers
who already live on the margins. Throughout the century-plus of
Salinas history that McKibben explores, she shows how the political
and economic stability of Salinas rested on the ability of nonwhite
minorities to achieve a measure of middle-class success and
inclusion in the cultural life of the city, without overturning a
system based in white supremacy. This timely book deepens our
understanding of race relations, economic development, and the
impact of changing demographics on regional politics in urban
California and in the United States as a whole.
An ambitious history of a California city that epitomizes the
history of race relations in modern America. Although much has been
written about the urban-rural divide in America, the city of
Salinas, California, like so many other places in the state and
nation whose economies are based on agriculture, is at once rural
and urban. For generations, Salinas has been associated with
migrant farmworkers from different racial and ethnic groups. This
broad-ranging history of "the Salad Bowl of the World" tells a
complex story of community-building in a multiracial, multiethnic
city where diversity has been both a cornerstone of civic identity
and, from the perspective of primarily white landowners and
pragmatic agricultural industrialists, essential for maintaining
the local workforce. Carol Lynn McKibben draws on extensive
original research, including oral histories and never-before-seen
archives of local business groups, tracing Salinas's ever-changing
demographics and the challenges and triumphs of Chinese, Japanese,
Filipino, and Mexican immigrants, as well as Depression-era Dust
Bowl migrants and white ethnic Europeans. McKibben takes us from
Salinas's nineteenth-century beginnings as the economic engine of
California's Central Coast up through the disproportionate impact
of Covid-19 on communities of color today, especially farmworkers
who already live on the margins. Throughout the century-plus of
Salinas history that McKibben explores, she shows how the political
and economic stability of Salinas rested on the ability of nonwhite
minorities to achieve a measure of middle-class success and
inclusion in the cultural life of the city, without overturning a
system based in white supremacy. This timely book deepens our
understanding of race relations, economic development, and the
impact of changing demographics on regional politics in urban
California and in the United States as a whole.
In 1917, Fort Ord was established in the tiny subdivision of
Seaside, California. Over the course of the 20th century, it held
great national and military importance--a major launching point for
World War II operations, the first base in the military to undergo
complete integration, the West Coast's most important training base
for draftees in the Vietnam War, a site of important civil rights
movements--until its closure in the 1990s. Alongside it, the city
of Seaside took form. "Racial Beachhead" offers the story of this
city, shaped over the decades by military policies of racial
integration in the context of the ideals of the American civil
rights movement.
Middle class blacks, together with other military families--black,
white, Hispanic, and Asian--created a local politics of inclusion
that continues to serve as a reminder that integration can work to
change ideas about race. Though Seaside's relationship with the
military makes it unique, at the same time the story of Seaside is
part and parcel of the story of 20th century American town life.
Its story contributes to the growing history of cities of
color--those minority-majority places that are increasingly the
face of urban America.
In 1917, Fort Ord was established in the tiny subdivision of
Seaside, California. Over the course of the 20th century, it held
great national and military importance--a major launching point for
World War II operations, the first base in the military to undergo
complete integration, the West Coast's most important training base
for draftees in the Vietnam War, a site of important civil rights
movements--until its closure in the 1990s. Alongside it, the city
of Seaside took form. "Racial Beachhead" offers the story of this
city, shaped over the decades by military policies of racial
integration in the context of the ideals of the American civil
rights movement.
Middle class blacks, together with other military families--black,
white, Hispanic, and Asian--created a local politics of inclusion
that continues to serve as a reminder that integration can work to
change ideas about race. Though Seaside's relationship with the
military makes it unique, at the same time the story of Seaside is
part and parcel of the story of 20th century American town life.
Its story contributes to the growing history of cities of
color--those minority-majority places that are increasingly the
face of urban America.
Presenting a nuanced story of women, migration, community,
industry, and civic life at the turn of the twentieth century,
Carol Lynn McKibben's Beyond Cannery Row analyzes the processes of
migration and settlement of Sicilian fishers from three villages in
Western Sicily to Monterey, California--and sometimes back again.
McKibben's analysis of gender and gender roles shows that it was
the women in this community who had the insight, the power, and the
purpose to respond and even prosper amid changing economic
conditions. Vividly evoking the immigrants' everyday experiences
through first-person accounts and detailed description, McKibben
demonstrates that the cannery work done by Sicilian immigrant women
was crucial in terms of the identity formation and community
development. These changes allowed their families to survive the
challenges of political conflicts over citizenship in World War II
and intermarriage with outsiders throughout the migration
experience. The women formed voluntary associations and celebrated
festas that effectively linked them with each other and with their
home villages in Sicily. Continuous migration created a strong
sense of transnationalism among Sicilians in Monterey, which has
enabled them to continue as a viable ethnic community today.
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