The color of America has changed: how racial diversity shaped civil rights reform in california, 1941-1978

This book examines the Civil Rights Movement in the West in order to bring the West to the Civil Rights Movement. In particular, it explores the challenge that racial diversity in California posed for building a multiracial civil rights movement. Mark Brilliant examines the state's crazy-quilt Jim Crow-style laws and legislation, including fair employment practices, old age pensions fornon-citizens, fair housing, school desegregation, and bilingual education. Discrimination in California was not only racial, but was also affected by citizenship status, perceptions of 'foreignness,' language issues, agricultural vs.industrial occupation, and rural vs. urban residence. These different axes ofdiscrimination pointed to different and sometimes conflicting avenues of legislative and legal redress. INDICE: Introduction: 'The Color of America Has Changed'; 1.: 'A UnitedFront of All of the Minority Groups'; 2.: 'Jap Crow'; 3.: 'The Problem of Segregation as Applied to Mexican-Americans'; 4.: 'Jim Crow is Just About Dead inCalifornia'; 5.: 'Problems as Diversified as its Population'; 6.: 'A Coalition.. For Many Years'; 7.: 'Ya Basta!'; 8.: 'To Break Up Coalitions of Minority People'; Conclusion: 'Dilemmas of Race and Ethnicity'; Notes Bibliography

• ISBN: 978-0-19-516050-5
• Editorial: Oxford University
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 384
• Fecha Publicación: 09/12/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés