Browsing by Subject "California"
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From Bracero to Mojado to Chicano: Farm Labor, Immigration, and Mexican Identity in California Agriculture, 1942-1980
(2015-06-26)The development of California’s large-scale farm industry occurred in the aftermath of World War I. When the United States joined World War II, the domestic labor force ran scarce and the Department of Agriculture brought ... -
A Little Justice: Settler Colonialism, Shasta Dam, and the Metabolic Rift in California’s Hydrologic Cycle
(2020-07-06)California’s water resource management relies on the Central Valley Project. This network of dams, canals, pumps, and diversions extracts water from the northern, wetter parts of the state and subsequently conveys water ... -
She's Filled With Secrets: the Mythology of Landscape in the American Western
(2013-05-03)Americans are heirs to a weighty, complex system of mythology surrounding landscape. The film, literary, and artistic genre of the Western encompasses the classic system of this mythology: that American space exists for ...