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Oliver Rosales - Civil Rights in Bakersfield, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

Civil Rights in Bakersfield

Segregation and Multiracial Activism in the Central Valley

Av Oliver Rosales

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2024 Outstanding Book Award, National Association for Ethnic Studies2025 Honorable Mention, Norris & Carol Hundley Award, Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association2025 The Ambassador Julian Nava Best Ethnic Studies Book, International Latino Book AwardsA multiracial history of civil rights coalitions beyond the farm worker movement in twentieth-century Bakersfield, California.In Civil Rights in Bakersfield, Oliver Rosales uncovers the role of the multiracial west in shaping the course of US civil rights history. Focusing on Bakersfield, one of the few sizable cities within California’s Central Valley for much of the twentieth century in a region most commonly known as a bastion of political conservatism, oil, and industrial agriculture, Rosales documents how multiracial coalitions emerged to challenge histories of racial segregation and discrimination. He recounts how the region was home to both the historic farm worker movement, led by CÉsar ChÁvez, Dolores Huerta, and Larry Itliong, and also a robust multiracial civil rights movement beyond the fields. This multiracial push for civil rights reform included struggles for fair housing, school integration, public health, media representation, and greater political representation for Black and Brown communities. In expanding on this history of multiracial activism, Rosales further explores the challenges activists faced in community organizing and how the legacies of coalition building contribute to ongoing activist efforts in the Central Valley of today.
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Oliver A. Rosales is a professor of history at Bakersfield College.

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"[This book] contributes to the growing body of city-level social histories on the U.S. West, and it helps move scholarship on civil rights in California beyond CÉsar ChÁvez and farmworkers…Rosales convincingly uses the history of Bakersfield to shed light on both [multiracial civil rights activism and rural white conservatism]." - (Pacific Historical Review) "Rosales’s work also suggests that for every gas station bigot, there was a coalition ready to fight back. This is a timely reminder. Hostilities toward immigrants, challenges to anti-poverty programs, and police violence against minority communities persist. In the postwar period, civil rights organizers in Bakersfield knew that these issues cut across race. What lessons can contemporary movements learn from the successes and failures of these coalitions?" - (California History) "Rosales offers a nuanced exploration of the Civil Rights Movement in Bakersfield, arguing that insufficient recognition of the various civil rights reforms that shaped the region has obscured the legacy of civil rights in the Central Valley...Rosales's analysis is crucial to demonstrating the importance of interracial coalitions in the midst of local and national opposition...Civil Rights in Bakersfield stands out for its interdisciplinary character and use of original methods." - (Journal of African American History) "A meticulously researched book...Civil Rights in Bakersfield is a tour de force not only in the field of Chicana/o studies but also US civil rights history. It is a requisite read for students and scholars interested in how multiracial activism at a local level contributed to the formation of larger movements." - (American Historical Review) "[This book is a] groundbreaking study, one that should be widely read, taught, praised, and celebrated." - (Western Historical Quarterly) "A tour de force." - (Amercan Historical Review)

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