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Jan. 9 | Call for papers: Identities and Technocultures
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Garcia, Matt. "Colonies, Colonias, and Culture: Intercultural Relations in the Citrus Belt of Southern California, 1900-1960," History Department, Claremont Graduate University, January 1997.
This work focuses on the cultural history of the segregated citrus-growing areas of Los Angeles County. Unlike in other agricultural regions in the West, public and private institutions emerged which mitigated ethnic/racial prejudice. Rather than living in mutual ignorance of one another, incidents of intercultural understanding and exchange developed around the arts. The Mexican Players of Padua Hills Theatre, the sculptors and painters of the Claremont Arts Colony, and the entertainers of San Gabriel Valley’s famous dance halls all represent artists and institutions which defined these interethnic experiences. I argue that we must explore the connections as well as the differences among ethnic/racial minorities and whites to gain a better understanding of how interethnic relations unfolded over time, and how this history influences social relations today.
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