Title: California :
Authors: Faragher, John Mack,
Date: 2022
Publisher: Yale University Press,
Physical description: ix, 466 pages : black and white illustrations ; 22 cm
Language: English
LC classification: F
Abstract: "California is the most multicultural state in the nation. As John Mack Faragher argues in this concise and lively history, that is nothing new. California's natural variety has always supported diversity, including Native peoples speaking dozens of distinct languages, Spanish and Mexican colonists, gold seekers from all corners of the globe, and successive migrant waves from the eastern states, Europe, Latin America, Asia, and the Pacific Islands. Beautifully crafted and elegantly written, Faragher tells the stories of a colorful cast of characters, some famous, others mostly unknown, including African American Archy Lee, who sued for his freedom; Sinkyone Indian woman Sally Bell, who survived genocide; and Jewish schoolgirl Marilyn Greene, who spoke up for her Japanese friends after Pearl Harbor. California's multicultural diversity often led to conflict, turmoil, and violence, but also to invention, improvisation, and a struggle for multicultural democracy"--
Contents: A state of diversity -- Little countries -- Big white birds -- China ships -- Extending the Spanish domain -- The wanderer -- What happened to my chickens? -- Undersea people -- The liberal cause -- Members of a single family -- We are free -- Viva California libre -- Wicked foreigners -- Yankee Doodle in Monterey -- Overland to California -- We must be conquerors -- The horrors of war -- Gold from the American river -- A white republic -- Popular justice -- My little sister's heart in my hands -- I'll never be carried into slavery -- Bohemian days -- The terrible seventies -- The cow counties -- A cosmopolitan city -- The remedy is more democracy -- Bounty of the mountains -- Invisible walls of steel -- Human rights and home rule -- The man with the hoe -- End poverty in California -- Unite to win -- Make no small plan for California -- Rebels and forerunners -- A cyclone in a wind tunnel -- A complicated ecosystem -- The impossible dream -- E pluribus unum -- The first step.
Notes: Includes index.
Subject headings (LCSH): California--Ethnic relations--History.; California--History.; California--Race relations--History.; Minorities--California--History.