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Becoming Mexipino: Multiethnic Identities and Communities in San Diego
Jr. Rudy P. Guevarra
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Description for Becoming Mexipino: Multiethnic Identities and Communities in San Diego
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Becoming Mexipino is a social-historical interpretation of two ethnic groups, one Mexican, the other Filipino, whose paths led both groups to San Diego, California. Rudy Guevarra traces the earliest interactions of both groups with Spanish colonialism to illustrate how these historical ties and cultural bonds laid the foundation for what would become close interethnic relationships and communities in twentieth-century San Diego as well as in other locales throughout California and the Pacific West Coast.
Through racially restrictive covenants and other forms of discrimination, both groups, regardless of their differences, were confined to segregated living spaces along with African ... Read more
Becoming Mexipino is a social-historical interpretation of two ethnic groups, one Mexican, the other Filipino, whose paths led both groups to San Diego, California. Rudy Guevarra traces the earliest interactions of both groups with Spanish colonialism to illustrate how these historical ties and cultural bonds laid the foundation for what would become close interethnic relationships and communities in twentieth-century San Diego as well as in other locales throughout California and the Pacific West Coast.
Through racially restrictive covenants and other forms of discrimination, both groups, regardless of their differences, were confined to segregated living spaces along with African ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Rutgers University Press
Condition
New
Series
Latinidad: Transnational Cultures in the United States
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
New Brunswick NJ, United States
ISBN
9780813552835
SKU
V9780813552835
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About Jr. Rudy P. Guevarra
RUDY P. GUEVARRA JR. is an associate professor of Asian Pacific American Studies at Arizona State University. He is the author of Filipinos in San Diego: Images of America Series, and coeditor of Transnational Crossroads: Remapping the Americas and the Pacific and Crossing Lines: Race and Mixed Race Across the Geohistorical Divide.
Reviews for Becoming Mexipino: Multiethnic Identities and Communities in San Diego
"Guevarra’s fresh, exciting, and provocative analysis provides an extraordinary account of what it means to be a multiethnic American…a remarkable feat!"
Rick Bonus
author of Locating Filipino Americans
"With a love for the archives and family stories, labor historian Rudy Guevarra provides a wonderfully rich, layered history of a vibrant multiethnic community in southern Califorinia."
Vicki L. ... Read more
Rick Bonus
author of Locating Filipino Americans
"With a love for the archives and family stories, labor historian Rudy Guevarra provides a wonderfully rich, layered history of a vibrant multiethnic community in southern Califorinia."
Vicki L. ... Read more