Racial Fault Lines The Historical Origins of White Supremacy in California

"An excellent summary and interpretation of race relations in nineteenth-century California. Empirically rich and theoretically sophisticated, it is the last and best word on the historical origins of the racial hierarchy that contemporary multiculturalists are struggling to overcome."--George Fredrickson, Stanford University "Sometime soon in the 21st century, all of California's peoples will belong to minorities, and Almaguer's pathbreaking comparative history is indispensable for understanding how and why this society became so racially diverse. His study expands the borders of multicultural scholarship."--Ronald Takaki, University of California, BerkeleyAlmaguer, Tomás is the author of 'Racial Fault Lines The Historical Origins of White Supremacy in California', published 1994 under ISBN 9780520089471 and ISBN 0520089472.