| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 35.4

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Book Review

The Devil in Silicon Valley: Northern California, Race, and Mexican Americans. By Stephen J. Pitti. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003. xiv + 297 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, bibliography, index. $29.95.)

The role of race in the history of the Santa Clara Valley constitutes the devil in this book. At the heart of his study, Stephen Pitti presents two arguments: racism structured inequalities that persisted through three different economies driven by wheat and mining, orchard agriculture, and the microchip, and ethnic Mexicans, informed by strong transnational connections, developed labor and civil rights organizations that began to drive a stake in the heart of that devil.

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