{"title":"Review: We Are Not Animals: Indigenous Politics of Survival, Rebellion, and Reconstitution in Nineteenth-Century California, by Martin Rizzo-Martinez","authors":"Natale A. Zappia","doi":"10.1525/ch.2023.100.2.126","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/ch.2023.100.2.126","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43253,"journal":{"name":"CALIFORNIA HISTORY","volume":"3 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83701818","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“Flipping the Script”","authors":"Julie Cohen","doi":"10.1525/ch.2023.100.1.27","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/ch.2023.100.1.27","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines the work of Alma Whitaker—feminist, reporter, and columnist for the Los Angeles Times from 1910 to 1944. Widely known in her time but almost totally forgotten today, Whitaker’s work illustrates the formative role of newspaperwomen in the expansion of Los Angeles in the early twentieth century, and specifically in promoting a settler fantasy that redefined notions of white women’s selfhood in the frontier space of Los Angeles. Her popular articles and columns both bolstered the white settler campaign to create Los Angeles as a white settlement and challenged patriarchal norms. Situating Whitaker within the emergence of the mass-circulating urban newspaper industry and the colonization of Los Angeles, this article contributes to the fields of women/gender history, hegemonic feminism, borderlands/California, and recent scholarship on settler colonialism as a framework for understanding U.S. history.","PeriodicalId":43253,"journal":{"name":"CALIFORNIA HISTORY","volume":"61 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79880827","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Review: Laboratory of Deficiency: Sterilization and Confinement in California, 1900–1950s, by Natalie Lira","authors":"Leslie Digdon","doi":"10.1525/ch.2023.100.2.107","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/ch.2023.100.2.107","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43253,"journal":{"name":"CALIFORNIA HISTORY","volume":"20 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87332651","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Review: The Accidental Ecosystem: People and Wildlife in American Cities, by Peter S. Alagona","authors":"Emily Wakild","doi":"10.1525/ch.2023.100.1.111","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/ch.2023.100.1.111","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43253,"journal":{"name":"CALIFORNIA HISTORY","volume":"48 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91199924","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Review: <i>A People’s History of SFO: The Making of the Bay Area and an Airport</i>, by Eric Porter","authors":"Mitchell Schwarzer","doi":"10.1525/ch.2023.100.4.131","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/ch.2023.100.4.131","url":null,"abstract":"Book Review| November 01 2023 Review: A People’s History of SFO: The Making of the Bay Area and an Airport, by Eric Porter Eric Porter. A People’s History of SFO: The Making of the Bay Area and an Airport. Oakland: University of California Press, 2023. Illustrations. 304 pp. Hardcover $29.95. Mitchell Schwarzer Mitchell Schwarzer MITCHELL SCHWARZER is an urban and architectural historian. He is professor emeritus at California College of the Arts, San Francisco, and most recently author of Hella Town: Oakland’s History of Development and Disruption (2021). Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar California History (2023) 100 (4): 131–134. https://doi.org/10.1525/ch.2023.100.4.131 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Mitchell Schwarzer; Review: A People’s History of SFO: The Making of the Bay Area and an Airport, by Eric Porter. California History 1 November 2023; 100 (4): 131–134. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/ch.2023.100.4.131 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentCalifornia History Search The enveloping nature of the airport and airways hit me a little over a year into the COVID-19 pandemic. Traveling from my home in Oakland to New York City ushered me into an enclosed series of paths that began with an AC Transit bus and continued via the BART train to San Francisco International Airport (SFO), the ticketing zone at the International Terminal, the security line in front of the A gates, the concourse leading to my flight, the jet bridge, and the corridor of the Jet Blue Airbus A321 leading to my seat. Once at JFK in New York, a like set of passageways took me toward my rental car and the out-of-doors, my first mask-free breath of fresh and presumably virus-free air. I had negotiated this ten-hour-long route many times before, yet that day I became acutely aware of the sequestered nature of the airport/airplane and the ancillary... You do not currently have access to this content.","PeriodicalId":43253,"journal":{"name":"CALIFORNIA HISTORY","volume":"62 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135561185","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“For Us, There Are No More Back Doors”","authors":"Eladio Bobadilla","doi":"10.1525/ch.2023.100.3.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/ch.2023.100.3.2","url":null,"abstract":"This article argues that the nativist-led referendum known as Proposition 187, which in 1994 sought to deny undocumented immigrants and their families access to many of the state’s social services, represents a set of paradoxes about Latino immigration to California and the United States whose roots, consequences, and implications are not yet fully understood. First, Prop 187 revealed the enduring place of undocumented people as “essential but unwanted.” Second, it represented both a victory and a defeat for the immigrants’ rights struggle. And finally, it represented both an end and a beginning in U.S. immigration history. By interpreting Prop 187 in this way, historians and other scholars should see the moment in more complex and elucidating ways than we have so far, not merely as a “turn” against undocumented immigrants characterized by a new form of nativism fueled by fears about demographic and cultural change, not merely as a moment that spurred action and a search for power among both undocumented immigrants and Latino U.S. citizens, and not merely as something that “foreshadowed” attempts to bring immigration policy under local control. Instead, a more holistic look, and one that takes a longer view of this story, stretching both farther back in time and closer to the present, reveals that Prop 187 was never an issue of importance only to California, and that while there was much that was “new” about this form of nativism, there was also much more that simply made Prop 187 the logical conclusion. Neither did California merely foreshadow other states’ attempts to take immigration into their own hands. Rather, California’s Prop 187 was a direct cause of their doing so.","PeriodicalId":43253,"journal":{"name":"CALIFORNIA HISTORY","volume":"164 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77476588","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Disease in History","authors":"Alicia Gutierrez-Romine","doi":"10.1525/ch.2023.100.3.86","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/ch.2023.100.3.86","url":null,"abstract":"In this essay, Alicia Gutierrez-Romine describes how she connected her interest in science and medicine to California history in her “Disease in History” course. She describes the course, how she developed the syllabus, and the ways her students responded. While difficult in some respects, she explains that the course worked well post-COVID. She ends by encouraging historians to think of diseases as historical actors and agents of change.","PeriodicalId":43253,"journal":{"name":"CALIFORNIA HISTORY","volume":"80 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83955210","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"San Francisco’s Magnificent Department Stores","authors":"Anne Evers Hitz","doi":"10.1525/ch.2023.100.1.80","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/ch.2023.100.1.80","url":null,"abstract":"In the late nineteenth century, San Francisco was booming and its merchant princes built grand stores such as City of Paris, Gump’s, The White House, I. Magnin, and The Emporium in the Union Square area. These stores were integral to the city’s emergence as a world-class commercial hub, starting with the mad scramble for supplies during the gold rush, and its transformation into a tourist mecca in the decades after World War II. This article looks at three of those retail enterprises: City of Paris, which satisfied desires for anything French; the I. Magnin empire, which catered to a selective upper-class clientele; and the Emporium department store, aimed at the middle class with its Bargain Basement and Santa for the kids.","PeriodicalId":43253,"journal":{"name":"CALIFORNIA HISTORY","volume":"74 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86285830","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“Nothing Less Than Justice”","authors":"Stephanie Narrow, Haleigh Marcello, J. Wu","doi":"10.1525/ch.2023.100.3.57","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/ch.2023.100.3.57","url":null,"abstract":"This article analyzes the significance of the 1977 California International Women’s Year (IWY) Conference, one of fifty-six state and territorial meetings held ahead of the 1977 National Women’s Conference (NWC) in Houston, Texas. The NWC was the first and only time that the U.S. federal government funded and authorized an event focused on women’s rights. Utilizing primary and oral history sources, we examine the political mobilization of women of color and lesbians from California. We focus on the efforts of these minoritized women to reach their respective communities and to form coalitions with one another, before and during the state meeting, in order to make collective impacts at the NWC. We make three arguments. First, these California activists built upon a longer tradition of political mobilization within and across communities defined in terms of race, indigeneity, and sexuality. Second, the timing of political engagement by women of color and lesbian-identified activists with the NWC, namely in the late 1970s, challenges the temporal understanding of so-called second-wave feminism, which tends to focus on the 1960s and early 1970s. Finally, the range of political ideas and strategies expressed at the California IWY Conference and the NWC reveals the intertwining of various ideologies and approaches to creating change. The NWC was a state-sponsored political event, but the grassroots mobilization that occurred at the local, state, and national levels enabled women of diverse backgrounds and beliefs to articulate and advocate for their political vision.","PeriodicalId":43253,"journal":{"name":"CALIFORNIA HISTORY","volume":"14 10 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88246521","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Review: <i>Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America</i>, by Pekka Hämäläinen","authors":"Alan Taylor","doi":"10.1525/ch.2023.100.4.134","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/ch.2023.100.4.134","url":null,"abstract":"Book Review| November 01 2023 Review: Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America, by Pekka Hämäläinen Pekka Hämäläinen. Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America. New York: W.W. Norton, 2022. 592 pp. Illustrations and maps. Hardcover $33.56. Alan Taylor Alan Taylor ALAN TAYLOR, professor of history at the University of Virginia, is the author of American Republics: A Continental History of the United States, 1783–1850 (2021), which won the Barbara and David Zalaznick Book Prize in American History from the New York Historical Society. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar California History (2023) 100 (4): 134–137. https://doi.org/10.1525/ch.2023.100.4.134 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Alan Taylor; Review: Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America, by Pekka Hämäläinen. California History 1 November 2023; 100 (4): 134–137. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/ch.2023.100.4.134 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentCalifornia History Search A distinguished professor at Oxford University, Pekka Hämäläinen has devoted his career to casting Native peoples as persistent and powerful in North America despite the Euro-American invasion that followed Columbus. In his first and most important book, The Comanche Empire (2008), Hämäläinen demonstrates how an Indigenous confederation dominated the southern Great Plains, fending off Spanish and American efforts to colonize the region. More recently, Hämäläinen’s Lakota America tells a similar story of Native power on the northern Great Plains through the nineteenth century. His latest book, Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America, applies that perspective to a continent over five hundred years: “Time and again, and across centuries, Indians blocked and destroyed colonial projects, forcing Euro-Americans to accept Native ways, Native sovereignty, and Native dominance. This is what the historical record shows when American history is detached from mainstream historical narratives that privilege European ambitions, European perspectives,... You do not currently have access to this content.","PeriodicalId":43253,"journal":{"name":"CALIFORNIA HISTORY","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135561671","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}