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"A major contribution to California historiography...will allow other scholars to analyze more fully the origins of racism and the range of ethnic experiences in California."--Pacific Historical Review
"A rare and realistic examination of American racism at work. It should be placed in the hands of every American who questions the reality of American racism."--Race and Schools
"A rare and realistic examination of American racism at work. It should be placed in the hands of every American who questions the reality of American racism."--Race and Schools
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Intolerance in the Land of Tolerance,
This review is from: The Other Californians: Prejudice and Discrimination under Spain, Mexico, and the United States to 1920 (Paperback)
A good measure of a history book, I am beginning to feel, is how much does it upset genealogists. Those who want to paint their ancestors as noble pioneers undoubtably dislike the revelations contained in The Other Californians. This is a book which I feel every Californian should read because it lays down the facts about how Native Americans, African Americans, Chinese, Japanese, and Mexicans were treated by our 19th century forebears. American historians, who are often short-winded on California's racist legacy, could suffer reading it, too.
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The Native Americans & The Spanish,
By Jackie Hill "Regginator" (San Fransisco) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Other Californians: Prejudice and Discrimination under Spain, Mexico, and the United States to 1920 (Paperback)
The Other Californians really brings to life the discrepancy between the intended purpose of the 21 California missions, and how they ended up functioning in practice. The book portrays the dark side of how the dominating Spanish treated other races, including Native Americans, Mexicans and Asians. The Spanish created the missions to "civilize" and give culture to the local population. Some of the missions were indeed harsh in their teachings. They could be very racist and cruel to the Indians, beating and punishing them regularly. If an Indian complained about how he was treated, the Spanish would send him to a horrible jail that made the missions seem kind and inviting in comparison. The Spanish would often alternate the Indians between the missions and jail until they were ready to renounce their old religion for Christianity. This book portrays these cruelties, and depicts how the Indians and other minority races tried to cope with what was happening. The Other Californians is an important book to read for anyone that really wants to fully understand all sides of our history.
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The discovery, exploration, and colonization of Upper California by the Spanish military and Franciscan missionaries covers the three centuries from 1542, with the first voyage of coastal exploration by Cabrillo, to 1834, the year in which the Franciscan missions, numbering twenty-one, were secularized. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
eighteen treaties, indenture act, white male citizen, conviction thereof, documents section Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, San Francisco, California Indians, Los Angeles, American Indians, Mexican Californians, Asiatic Exclusion League, Humboldt County, Penal Code, Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, Alta California, San Joaquin, Austin Willey, Frontier Settlement, Mexican War, Sacramento Union, Four Creeks, Sierra Nevada, Bancroft Library, Captain Jack, Chinese Fund, Fort Humboldt, Fort Ross, Indian Island, Nome Lackee New!
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The discovery, exploration, and colonization of Upper California by the Spanish military and Franciscan missionaries covers the three centuries from 1542, with the first voyage of coastal exploration by Cabrillo, to 1834, the year in which the Franciscan missions, numbering twenty-one, were secularized. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
eighteen treaties, indenture act, white male citizen, conviction thereof, documents section Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, San Francisco, California Indians, Los Angeles, American Indians, Mexican Californians, Asiatic Exclusion League, Humboldt County, Penal Code, Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, Alta California, San Joaquin, Austin Willey, Frontier Settlement, Mexican War, Sacramento Union, Four Creeks, Sierra Nevada, Bancroft Library, Captain Jack, Chinese Fund, Fort Humboldt, Fort Ross, Indian Island, Nome Lackee New!
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- This Land Was Theirs: A Study of North American Indians by Wendell H. Oswalt on 5 pages
- Chinese Immigration by Mary Elizabeth Burroughs Coolidge on 4 pages
- Conflict Between the Californian Indian and White Civilization by Sherburne F. Cook on 4 pages
- History of California Labor Legislation by Eaves on 4 pages
- History of California by Hubert H. Bancroft on page 130, page 156, and Back Matter
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