"Camarillo is concerned with the experience of Chicanos between 
1848, when America annexed California, to 1930, when the 
Depression complicated the already tenuous situation of many 
thousands of Mexican migrants."—Los Angeles Times

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ALBERT CAMARILLO is a professor of history at Stanford University. 
His most recent book, Not White, Not Black: Mexicans and Racial/
Ethnic Borderlands in American Cities, is forthcoming from Oxford 
University Press.


Published in cooperation with the William P. Clements Center for 
Southwest Studies


What people are saying about this book

"Contributes to an understanding of the origins of Mexicans' status 
as an exploited segment of the American working class; the 
relationship of Mexicans' working-class status to racial oppression; 
the origins of Mexican barrios; the persistence of Mexican culture 
in the United States; and the relationship between American 
capitalism and Mexicans' subordinate position. A significant 
contribution to Chicano historiography and to the history of the 
urban West."—Journal of American History