... 7. AMERICAN IMPRESSIONISM- CALIFORNIA SCHOOL ((California Dreamin' "? The contradictory role of art in contemporary society has long been the center of intense controversy and extended...

...chapter 13 / CAROLE H. BROWNER Lost in Translation Lessons from California on the Implementation of State-Mandated Fetal Diagnosis in the Context of Globalization lobalization processes invariably involve large-scale population Gmovements that transform every...

... The Political Ecology of Fisheries in the Upper Gulf of California James B. Greenberg Introduction Between 1989 and 1990, the shrimp catch in the upper Gulf of California dropped drastically, nearly 60 percent from previous levels, and yields for the next three...

...5 THE POLITICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF RACE Asian American and Latino Redistricting Debates in California and New York Leland T. Saito Redistricting, or the redrawing of political district lines following each decen- nial census to reflect changes in population...

..., he also spread Seymour’s message among Indians in Needles, California. among the indians at needles, california. (AF, January 1907, 3) Jan. 8th. I reached the Needles on Saturday, Jan. 1 [1907]. Found dear old friends there, working in their beautiful little mission house among...

...12 The Greening of California Performance: Art for Social Change—A Case Study “Is this for real?” someone next to me whispered in outraged delight. Clad in an iridescent, emerald-​green blouse, suntanned and glowing beneath a luxu- riant mane...

...13 Made for TV: California Performance in Mass Media Like a thermostat, performance artists can easily adjust to variations in the images, storylines, and undercurrent messages of popular culture. They can do this with more or less awareness of the...

... ∞ california, here we come, right back where we started from Umber has an unfortunate knack of getting into trouble at school and home. She kicks it with other Desis at school, but often finds herself at the center of gossip and...

...STEPHEN PITTI Chicano Cold Warriors César Chávez, Mexican American Politics, and California Farmworkers Few political earthquakes rocked the twentieth-century United States like the one that hit California’s San Joaquin Valley on September 16, 1965.∞ As ethnic...

... independent institutions in California. When the author moved to Claremont to serve as chaplain, the idealism and activism sweeping the country in the 1960s had not yet visibly touched the Claremont campuses, renowned for their academic rigor. Within a few years, the campuses became hotbeds of protests and...

...Rachel St. John Selling the Border Trading Land, Attracting Tourists, and Marketing American Consumption on the Baja California Border, 1900–1934 n 1920, the Sunset Inn, a Tijuana casino, launched an adver- Itising...

...Lawrence Culver Promoting the Pacific Borderlands Leisure and Labor in Southern California, 1870–1950 n the late nineteenth century, southern California emerged Ias a contact point between Mexico and the United States. It also...

... ROBERT H. BRINKMEYER JR. AND DEBRA RAE COHEN Forward into the Past: California and the Contemporary White Southern Imagination ather than the East-West axis by which...

... 5 California I had no intention of returning home to Mobile after leaving the James Brown Show—in 1970 all roads led to L.A. Gertie and I had managed to save up a little moving money. The friends I had...

...Racial Geography of Southern California 1 On 30 April 1992, a satellite operated by the National Oceanic and Atmo- spheric Administration (noaa) began transmitting an image of an un- usual heat source emanating from Southern California. This heat source...

... was a trombonist in the junior band. I was about to get into that orchestra when we cut out and went to California. When I was six or seven years old, I had my first band. I always used to have a gang of cats who would follow me. We got some old furnaces, buckets, tin pans, skillets, and some...

... louise pubols Fathers of the Pueblo: Patriarchy and Power in Mexican California, 1800–1880 n a quiet Sunday in June 1846, General Mariano Guadalupe Va- llejo awoke at dawn to the sound of hammering blows on the...

...* Borderland Stories bárbara o. reyes Race, Agency, and Memory in a Baja California Mission he most significant accomplishment of conquest, argues David Gutiérrez, is the dominant forces’ ability to provide a set of nar...

... 3 the expropriation of american-owned land in baja california Political, Economic, Social, and Cultural Factors Ójala, now that we are given the lands to form patrimony with our children, we...

... chapter 3 Mexicans in California and Oregon Any rethinking of the position of states and nationalism in the lives of transborder migrants must reconceptualize how we think about the spe- cific local spaces where Mixtec and...