The Latino Big Bang in California: The Diary of Justo Veytia, a Mexican Forty-Niner (Querencias Series)

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Synopsis
The Latino Big Bang in California presents a Spanish transcription and English translation of a diary written by Forty-Niner Justo Veytia, a Mexican immigrant seeking riches during California&’s Gold Rush. Veytia&’s diary offers insights into the dilemmas and choices of an adventurous and ambitious young mexicano and provides a detailed glimpse into the life of Latinos who participated in this tumultuous moment in California history. In doing so, Veytia&’s diary demonstrates that the US-Mexico War together with the Gold Rush constituted a Latino &“big bang&” in California that attracted large swaths of fortune seekers from across the Spanish-speaking world throughout the latter half of the nineteenth century. Combining archival research with quantitative methods to extrapolate demographic information about the persistent presence of Latino communities in California from the mid-nineteenth century to today, The Latino Big Bang in California shows how Latino migration and labor forever changed the course of California history.
Copyright:
2023

Book Details

Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
Book Size:
328 Pages
ISBN-13:
9780826368157
Related ISBNs:
9780826365507
Publisher:
University of New Mexico Press
Date of Addition:
Copyrighted By:
University of New Mexico Press
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
History, Nonfiction, Social Studies
Submitted By:
Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:
This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:
David E. Hayes-Bautista
Edited by:
Cynthia L. Chamberlin
Edited by:
Gray Bryan Paul
Epilogue by:
Luis Jaime Veytia Orozco

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