| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 108.1

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Matt Garcia. A World of Its Own: Race, Labor, and Citrus in the Making of Greater Los Angeles, 1900–1970. (Studies in Rural Culture.) Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 2001. Pp. xx, 330. Cloth $55.00, paper $19.95.

Growing up in Pomona near Interstate 10 during the 1970s and 1980s, Matt Garcia came to understand the suburban sprawls of southern California almost as second nature. But he also knew that his home had once been the heart of the citrus belt, which, during the first half of the twentieth century, stretched sixty miles through the San Gabriel and San Bernardino Valleys, from Pasadena to Riverside. How citrus became suburbia is the central theme of his intriguing book. As a child of mixed heritage (his mother was Anglo and his father Mexican), Garcia gained a unique perspective on race relations in the region, and as a scholar of ethnic studies he developed the skills to expand and articulate that perspective. Readers of this book will greatly benefit from his personal and scholarly insights. Mexican Americans, Garcia argues, "overcame labor exploitation, segregation, and racism to participate in the creation of Greater Los Angeles" (p. 12). They did so not so much through unionizing, strikes, and other overt forms of resistance but through "cultural politics." In semiautonomous colonias, churches, local theaters, dance halls, radio stations, and interethnic community groups, Mexican Angelenos created "public spaces" for themselves that significantly shaped the physical and cultural geography of southern California. . . .

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