California history

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• 4/9/2023
  

  The Power and Betrayal of Cross-Ethnic Solidarity in the 1903 Oxnard Beet Strike

  by Frank P. Barajas

  The Japanese Mexican Labor Association overcame the deliberate ethnic division of the farm labor force in Oxnard, California to win a major strike in the sugar beet fields in 1903, overcoming violent repression. Anti-Asian prejudice in the broader labor movement ended this successful experiment to the detriment of generations of workers. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  4/21/2021
  

  Racism Has Always Been Part of the Asian American Experience

  by Mae Ngai

  Anti-Asian racism draws from different historical origins than Jim Crow, but their histories are part of the same conflict: whether White Americans are entitled to rule over other people, domestically or globally. 

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• SOURCE: Los Angeles Times
  10/6/2020
  

  USC’s Natalia Molina Wins MacArthur Fellowship for Work on Immigrant Stereotypes

  "Of this year’s 21 fellows across the arts, education, science, media, law and environmental studies, Molina’s work on race, gender, culture and citizenship is particularly timely, essentially at the heart of the national conversation as America undergoes a reckoning over systemic racism and grapples with questions of equity, inclusion and identity."

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• SOURCE: California Historical Society
  6/17/19
  

  The Transcontinental Railroad, African Americans and the California Dream

  by Alison Rose Jefferson

  Before, during and after the transcontinental line’s construction, in southern states, thousands of enslaved and then freedmen worked on the railroads grading lines, building bridges, and blasting tunnels.