The Latino Big Bang in California: The Diary of Justo Veytia, a Mexican Forty-Niner - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:David E. Hayes-Bautista, Cynthia L. Chamberlin, Gray Bryan PaulSeries:QuerenciasTheme:Cultural Region/Western U.S., Ethnic Orientation/Hispanic & LatinoPublish date:2025-04-01Pages:328
Languages:EnglishPublisher:University of New Mexico PressISBN-13:9780826368140ISBN-10:082636814XUPC:9780826368140Book Category:History, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:United States, Cultural & Ethnic StudiesBook Topic:State & Local, Hispanic & Latino StudiesSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.73 inchesWeight:0.68Product ID:SCAJZ7HE7R
The Latino Big Bang in California presents a Spanish transcription and English translation of a diary written by Forty-Niner Justo Veytia, a Mexican immigrant seeking riches during California's Gold Rush. Veytia's diary offers insights into the dilemmas and choices of an adventurous and ambitious young mexicano and provides a detailed glimpse into the life of Latinos who participated in this tumultuous moment in California history. In doing so, Veytia's diary demonstrates that the US-Mexico War together with the Gold Rush constituted a Latino "big bang" in California that attracted large swaths of fortune seekers from across the Spanish-speaking world throughout the latter half of the nineteenth century. Combining archival research with quantitative methods to extrapolate demographic information about the persistent presence of Latino communities in California from the mid-nineteenth century to today, The Latino Big Bang in California shows how Latino migration and labor forever changed the course of California history.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:University of New Mexico PressISBN-13:9780826368140ISBN-10:082636814XUPC:9780826368140Book Category:History, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:United States, Cultural & Ethnic StudiesBook Topic:State & Local, Hispanic & Latino StudiesSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.73 inchesWeight:0.68Product ID:SCAJZ7HE7R
David E. Hayes-Bautista is a Distinguished Professor of Medicine and the director of the Center for the Study of Latino Health and Culture at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. He is also the author of El Cinco de Mayo: An American Tradition. Cynthia L. Chamberlin is the historian, editor, and translator at the Center for the Study of Latino Health and Culture at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. She is also the coauthor of a number of CESLAC's publications on the history of Latinos in California. Paul Bryan Gray is a California lawyer and historian and the author of A Clamor for Equality: Emergence and Exile of Californio Activist Francisco P. Ramírez.
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
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David E. Hayes-Bautista, Cynthia L. Chamberlin, Gray Bryan Paul
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