| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 38.4

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| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 38.4 | The History Cooperative

*Making Lemonade Out of Lemons: Mexican American Labor and Leisure in a California Town, 1880–1960*. By José M. Alamillo. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2006. xii + 220 pp. Illustrations, notes, index, $60.00, cloth; $25.00, paper.)
In this rich social history of the Mexican community of Corona, California, José M. Alamillo develops the literal and metaphorical power of a cliché. Lemonade literally made the local economy when Corona companies built a lemon by-product factory in town to make use of otherwise unmarketable lemons. Likewise, Alamillo argues that Corona's Mexican community circumvented and even drew strength from the limits imposed by Anglo society. The metaphor allows him to reassert Chicano/a agency into a historical narrative that has traditionally rendered them powerless and invisible.	1
As the center of an agricultural and industrial lemon business, Alamillo demonstrates how the lemon industry shaped migration and social relations in the region. Initially, Mexican and Italian workers displaced the traditional Asian labor pool. Alamillo points to moments of shared discrimination against both groups, and personal and social alliances that grew out of that experience. Race, or rather access to a white identity intervened, allowing Italians economic and social mobility.	. . .

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