An urgent and timely story of the contentious politics of incorporating environmental justice into global climate change policy Although the science of climate change is clear, policy decisions about ...how to respond to its effects remain contentious. Even when such decisions claim to be guided by objective knowledge, they are made and implemented through political institutions and relationships-and all the competing interests and power struggles that this implies. Michael Méndez tells a timely story of people, place, and power in the context of climate change and inequality. He explores the perspectives and influence low†'income people of color bring to their advocacy work on climate change. In California, activist groups have galvanized behind issues such as air pollution, poverty alleviation, and green jobs to advance equitable climate solutions at the local, state, and global levels. Arguing that environmental protection and improving public health are inextricably linked, Mendez contends that we must incorporate local knowledge, culture, and history into policymaking to fully address the global complexities of climate change and the real threats facing our local communities.
The 1960 California Master Plan for Higher Education remains to
this day the largest and most ambitious attempt to provide free,
universal college education in the United States. Yet the Master
Plan, ...the product of committed Cold War liberals, unfortunately
served to reinforce the very class-based exclusions and de facto
racism that plagued K-12 education in the nation's largest and most
diverse state. In doing so, it inspired a wave of student and
faculty organizing that not only forced administrators and
politicians to live up to the original promise of the Master
Plan-quality higher education for all-but changed the face of
California itself. Higher Education for All is the first
and only comprehensive account of the California Master Plan.
Through deep archival work and sharp attention to a fascinating
cast of historical characters, Andrew Stone Higgins has excavated
the forgotten history of the Master Plan: from its origins in the
1957 Sputnik Crisis, through Governor Ronald Reagan's financial
starvation and his failed quest to introduce tuition, to the
student struggle to institute affirmative action in university
admissions.
Despite living and working in California, one of the county's most
environmentally progressive states, environmental justice activists
have spent decades fighting for clean air to breathe, clean ...water
to drink, and safe, healthy communities. Evolution of a
Movement tells their story-from the often-raucous protests of
the 1980s and 1990s to activists' growing presence inside the halls
of the state capitol in the 2000s and 2010s. Tracy E. Perkins
traces how shifting political contexts combined with activists' own
efforts to institutionalize their work within nonprofits and state
structures. By revealing these struggles and transformations,
Perkins offers a new lens for understanding environmental justice
activism in California. Drawing on case studies and 125 interviews
with activists from Sacramento to the California-Mexico border,
Perkins explores the successes and failures of the environmental
justice movement in California. She shows why some activists have
moved away from the disruptive "outsider" political tactics common
in the movement's early days and embraced traditional political
channels of policy advocacy, electoral politics, and working from
within the state's political system to enact change. Although some
see these changes as a sign of the growing sophistication of the
environmental justice movement, others point to the potential of
such changes to blunt grassroots power. At a time when
environmental justice scholars and activists face pressing
questions about the best route for effecting meaningful change,
this book provides insight into the strengths and limitations of
social movement institutionalization.
The Sacramento Valley of northern California is a rich, diverse environment that supported some of the densest populations of nonagricultural people in the world. Periodic flooding, however, has ...buried much of the valley’s deep cultural history under alluvium. This volume shares the discovery of four buried archaeological sites, including one dating to 7,000 years ago, filled with a diversified assemblage of artifacts and a rich assortment of food remains. Stone net sinkers and associated fish bones represent the oldest fishery ever documented in the interior of California, while such items as marine shell beads, exotic obsidian, and newly recovered charmstones in California provide evidence for long-distance trade networks. in California provide evidence for long-distance trade networks.
The other three sites date between 4000 and 300 years ago and reflect increasing human population density, technological innovation, and the rise of sedentism and territoriality. This historical sequence culminated in findings from a 400- to 300-year-old house complex probably occupied by the Mechoopda Indian Tribe, who collaborated with the authors throughout the project.
The mixed-race Hawaiian athlete George Freeth brought surfing to
Venice, California, in 1907. Over the next twelve years, Freeth
taught Southern Californians to surf and swim while creating a
modern ...lifeguard service that transformed the beach into a
destination for fun, leisure, and excitement. Patrick Moser places
Freeth's inspiring life story against the rise of the Southern
California beach culture he helped shape and define. Freeth made
headlines with his rescue of seven fishermen, an act of heroism
that highlighted his innovative lifeguarding techniques. But he
also founded California's first surf club and coached both male and
female athletes, including Olympic swimming champion and "father of
modern surfing" Duke Kahanamoku. Often in financial straits, Freeth
persevered as a teacher and lifeguarding pioneer--building a legacy
that endured long after his death during the 1919 influenza
pandemic.
A compelling merger of biography and sports history, Surf
and Rescue brings to light the forgotten figure whose novel
way of seeing the beach sparked the imaginations of people around
the world.
Embodied Politics illuminates the influential force of public health promotion in indigenous migrant communities by examining the Indigenous Health Project (IHP), a culturally and linguistically ...competent initiative that uses health workshops, health messages, and social programs to mitigate the structural vulnerability of Oaxacan migrants in California. Embodied Politics reconstructs how this initiative came to exist and describes how it operates. At the same time, it points out the conflicts, resistances, and counter-acts that emerge through the IHP’s attempts to guide the health behaviors and practices of Triqui and Mixteco migrants. Arguing for a structurally competent approach to migrant health, Embodied Politics shows how efforts to promote indigenous health may actually reinforce the same social and political economic forces, namely structural racism and neoliberalism, that are undermining the health of indigenous Oaxacans in Mexico and the United States.
Varaždinski istraživač isusovac Ferdinand Konšćak (1703–1759) bio je hrvatski misionar i kartograf na području Donje Kalifornije. Konšćakove karte prvi su puta objavljene u djelu Miguela Venegasa i ...Marcosa Buriela Noticia de la California 1757. godine. Ta je knjiga objavljena na španjolskom jeziku, a potom i na engleskom (1759), nizozemskom (1761/62), francuskom (1766 i 1796–1797) te njemačkom jeziku (1769). U ovome su radu po prvi put popisane i prikazane sve karte koje se pripisuju Ferdinandu Konšćaku, a reprodukcije su preuzete iz najkvalitetnijih izdanja. Popisana su i mjesta širom svijeta u kojima se Konšćakove karte čuvaju. U posebnoj tablici pregledno su dani najvažniji podatci o kartama prikazanima u ovome radu. Na kraju se zaključuje da su život i djelo Ferdinanda Konšćaka nedovoljno istraženi, što se osobito odnosi na njegov kartografski doprinos.
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Beginning in the era of Manifest Destiny, U.S. settlers, writers,
politicians, and boosters worked to bind California and Hawai'i
together in the American imagination, emphasizing white settlement
...and capitalist enterprise. In California and Hawai'i Bound
Henry Knight Lozano explores how these settlers and boosters
promoted and imagined California and Hawai'i as connected places
and sites for U.S. settler colonialism, and how this relationship
reveals the fraught constructions of an Americanized Pacific West
from the 1840s to the 1950s. The growing ties of promotion and
development between the two places also fostered the promotion of
"perils" over this transpacific relationship, from Native Hawaiians
who opposed U.S. settler colonialism to many West Coast Americans
who articulated social and racial dangers from closer bonds with
Hawai'i, illustrating how U.S. promotional expansionism in the
Pacific existed alongside defensive peril in the complicated
visions of Americanization that linked California and Hawai'i.
California and Hawai'i Bound demonstrates how the settler
colonial discourses of Americanization that connected California
and Hawai'i evolved and refracted alongside socioeconomic
developments and native resistance, during a time when U.S.
territorial expansion, transoceanic settlement and tourism, and
capitalist investment reconstructed both the American West and the
eastern Pacific.
