Latinos at the Golden Gate
Subtitle: creating community and identity in San Francisco
By: Tomás F. Summers Sandoval Jr
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 237
ISBN-13: 9781469607665
Subjects: Hispanic Americans; History
Description: "Born in an explosive boom and built through distinct economic networks, San Francisco has a cosmopolitan character that often masks the challenges migrants faced to create community in the city by the bay. Latin American migrants have been part of the city's story since its beginning. Charting the development of a hybrid Latino identity forged through struggle - latinidad - from the Gold Rush through the civil rights era, Tomás F. Summers Sandoval Jr. chronicles the rise of San Francisco's diverse community of Latin American migrants. This latinidad, Summers Sandoval shows, was formed and made visible on college campuses and in churches, neighborhoods, movements for change, youth groups, protests, the Spanish-language press, and business districts. Using diverse archival sources, Summers Sandoval gives readers a panoramic perspective on the transformation of a mutli-national, multigenerational population into a visible, cohesive, and diverse community that today is a major force for social and political activism and cultural production in California and beyond"--Unedited summary book cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-224) and index.
Table of contents: title: How do I get to San Francisco? : Latin Americans and the Golden Gate; title: But things will soon take change : race and power in gold rush San Francisco; title: El esplendor, brillantez e influencia de nuestra raza : panethnic identity and the Spanish-speaking church; title: We can't go home : Latin American migration and community in the twentieth century; title: All those who care about the mission, stand up with me! : Latino community formation and the mission coalition organization; title: Basta Ya! : raza youth in an era of radical third world possibility; title: Speaking Latino: San Francisco in an era of Latino evictions.