Jimmy Patiño. Raza Sí, Migra No: Chicano Movement Struggles for Immigrant Rights in San Diego. Justice, Power, and Politics Series. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2017. 356 pp. $32.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-4696-3556-9.
Reviewed by Oliver Rosales (Bakersfield College) Published on H-California (June, 2018) Commissioned by Khal Schneider
Thomas J. Osborne. Coastal Sage: Peter Douglas and the Fight to Save California's Shore. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2017. Illustrations. xx + 227 pp. $85.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-520-28308-4; $34.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-520-29665-7.
Reviewed by Matthew Pearce (University of Oklahoma) Published on H-California (May, 2018) Commissioned by Khal Schneider
Karen R. Roybal. Archives of Dispossession: Recovering the Testimonios of Mexican American Herederas, 1848-1960. Gender and American Culture Series. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2017. 186 pp. $27.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-4696-3382-4; $85.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4696-3381-7.
Reviewed by Julia C. Frankenbach (University of Colorado at Boulder) Published on H-California (March, 2018) Commissioned by Khal Schneider
Scott Zesch. The Chinatown War: Chinese Los Angeles and the Massacre of 1871. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. Illustrations. xii + 283 pp. $29.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-975876-0.
Reviewed by Karen Raines (University of California, Riverside) Published on H-California (September, 2013) Commissioned by Eileen V. Wallis
Forgetting and Remembering Atrocity
David Igler. The Great Ocean: Pacific Worlds from Captain Cook to the Gold Rush. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013. 255 pp. $29.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-991495-1.
Reviewed by Thomas Osborne Published on H-California (August, 2013) Commissioned by Eileen V. Wallis
Elana Zilberg. Space of Detention: The Making of a Transnational Gang Crisis between Los Angeles and San Salvador. Durham: Duke University Press, 2011. 344 pp. $89.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8223-4713-2; $24.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8223-4730-9.
Reviewed by Christine M. Lamberson Published on H-California (August, 2013) Commissioned by Eileen V. Wallis
Peter J. Westwick, ed. Blue Sky Metropolis: The Aerospace Century in Southern California. Western Histories Series. Berkeley and San Marino: University of California Press and Huntington Library, 2012. Illustrations. 290 pp. $44.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-87328-249-9.
Reviewed by Roger Eardley-Pryor Published on H-California (July, 2013) Commissioned by Eileen V. Wallis
Glenna Matthews. The Golden State in the Civil War: Thomas Starr King, the Republican Party, and the Birth of Modern California. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012. xii + 272 pp. $95.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-521-19400-6; $25.99 (paper), ISBN 978-1-107-63921-8.
Reviewed by John P. Lloyd (Cal Poly Pomona) Published on H-California (January, 2013) Commissioned by Eileen V. Wallis
Sue Fawn Chung. In Pursuit of Gold: Chinese American Miners and Merchants in the American West. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2011. xxxii + 258 pp. $55.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-252-03628-6.
Reviewed by Michael Duchemin (Chinese American Museum, El Pueblo de Los Angeles Historical Monument) Published on H-California (November, 2012) Commissioned by Eileen V. Wallis
Lori Lee Wilson. The Joaquin Band: The History behind the Legend. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2011. Maps. xiv + 322 pp. $29.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8032-3461-1.
Reviewed by Daniel Justin Herman (Western Washinton University History Department) Published on H-California (July, 2012) Commissioned by Eileen V. Wallis
Andrea Dyrness. Mothers United: An Immigrant Struggle for Socially Just Education. Minneapolis: University Of Minnesota Press, 2011. 264 pp. $69.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8166-7466-4; $22.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8166-7467-1.
Reviewed by Gilda L. Ochoa (Pomona College) Published on H-California (July, 2012) Commissioned by Eileen V. Wallis
Charlotte Brooks. Alien Neighbors, Foreign Friends: Asian Americans, Housing, and the Transformation of Urban California. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009. xv + 329 pp. $40.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-226-07597-6.
Reviewed by Jennifer Fang (University of Delaware) Published on H-California (August, 2011) Commissioned by Eileen V. Wallis
Catherine S. Ramírez. The Woman in the Zoot Suit: Gender, Nationalism, and the Cultural Politics of Memory. Durham: Duke University Press, 2009. xxvi + 229 pp. $22.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8223-4303-5.
Reviewed by Emily E. Straus Published on H-California (August, 2011) Commissioned by Eileen V. Wallis
Gendering the Zoot Suit
William Issel. For Both Cross and Flag: Catholic Action, Anti-Catholicism, and National Security Politics in World War II San Francisco. Urban Life, Landscape and Policy Series. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2009. 216 pp. $40.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4399-0028-4.
Reviewed by Paul Kahan (Slippery Rock University) Published on H-California (April, 2011) Commissioned by Eileen V. Wallis
R. John Brockmann. Commodore Robert F. Stockton, 1795-1866: Protean Man for a Protean Nation. Amherst: Cambria Press, 2009. xx + 622 pp. $144.99 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-60497-630-4.
Reviewed by Henry Goldman Published on H-California (December, 2010) Commissioned by Eileen V. Wallis
Commodore Stockton and California
