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Book Review
A World of Its Own: Race, Labor, and Citrus in the Making of
Greater Los Angeles, 19001970. By Matt Garcia. (Chapel
Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001. xx + 330 pp. Illustrations,
maps, appendix, notes, bibliography, index. $55.00, cloth; $19.95, paper.)
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This study merges Chicano cultural development with citrus production in the segregated San Gabriel Valley of California between 1900 and 1970. Expanding upon the historiography of social and cultural space regarding Mexican Americans, Garcia seeks to show them as active agents in adaptation to economic transformations taking place in this suburban environment. |
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