This book looks beyond the headlines to uncover the controversial history of California's ballot measures over the past fifty years. As the rest of the U.S. watched, California voters banned public ...services for undocumented immigrants, repealed public affirmative action programs, and outlawed bilingual education, among other measures. Why did a state with a liberal political culture, an increasingly diverse populace, and a well-organized civil rights leadership roll back civil rights and anti-discrimination gains? Daniel Martinez HoSang finds that, contrary to popular perception, this phenomenon does not represent a new wave of "color-blind" policies, nor is a triumph of racial conservatism. Instead, in a book that goes beyond the conservative-liberal divide, HoSang uncovers surprising connections between the right and left that reveal how racial inequality has endured. Arguing that each of these measures was a proposition about the meaning of race and racism, his deft, convincing analysis ultimately recasts our understanding of the production of racial identity, inequality, and power in the postwar era.
An examination of the struggle to conserve biodiversity in
urban regions, told through the story of the threatened coastal
California gnatcatcher The story of the rare coastal
California gnatcatcher ...is a parable for understanding the larger
ongoing struggle to conserve biodiversity in regions confronted
with intensifying urban development. Because this gnatcatcher
depends on vanishing coastal sage scrub in Southern California, it
has been regarded as a flagship species for biodiversity protection
since the early 1990s. But the uncertainty of the gnatcatcher's
taxonomic classification-and whether it can be counted as a
"listable unit" under the Endangered Species Act-has provoked
contentious debate among activists, scientists, urban developers,
and policy makers. Synthesizing insights from ecology,
environmental history, public policy analysis, and urban planning
as she tracks these debates over the course of the past twenty-five
years, Audrey L. Mayer presents an ultimately optimistic take on
the importance of much-neglected regional conservation planning
strategies to create sustainable urban landscapes that benefit
humans and wildlife alike.
Gotovo univerzalna imunizacija djece povezana je s logaritamskim opadanjem broja zaraza kako u Sjedinjenim Državama tako i svijetu. U Sjedinjenim Državama, zakon o obveznom cijepljenju školske djece ...pokazao se posebno korisnim za postizanje visokog stupnja zaštite potrebne za održavanje imunosti zajednice. Međutim, zabrinutosti oko sigurnosti cjepiva dovele su do donošenja National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act (Nacionalni zakon o štetnosti dječjeg cjepiva) iz 1986., prema kojem se kroz „no-fault sustav“ (bez obzira tko je kriv) kompenziraju oštećeni određenim cjepivima. Cjepivo protiv ospica iznimno je učinkovito, a pojave ospica najčešće su povezane s neprimanjem cjepiva. Zbog poznatog slučaja pojave ospica u kalifornijskom zabavnom parku 2014., savezna država Kalifornija dodatno je ograničila mogućnost pohađanja škole djece koja nisu cijepljena zbog obiteljskih uvjerenja. Obvezno cijepljenje predstavlja samo jednu od odredbi kojima je cilj zaštita javnog zdravlja, a ,eđu kojima su i obvezna fluoridacija pitke vode i karantena i izolacija zbog prenosivih bolesti. Zaključujemo da obvezno cijepljenje školske djece pomaže vladama u ispunjenju njihove dužnosti u zaštiti i unaprjeđenju javnog zdravstva.
If California were its own country, it would have the world's fifth largest immigrant population. The way these newcomers are integrated into the state will shape California's schools, workforce, ...businesses, public health, politics, and culture. In Immigrant California, leading experts in U.S. migration provide cutting-edge research on the incorporation of immigrants and their descendants in this bellwether state. California, unique for its diverse population, powerful economy, and progressive politics, provides important lessons for what to expect as demographic change comes to most states across the country. Contributors to this volume cover topics ranging from education systems to healthcare initiatives and unravel the sometimes-contradictory details of California's immigration history. By examining the past and present of immigration policy in California, the volume shows how a state that was once the national leader in anti-immigrant policies quickly became a standard-bearer of greater accommodation. California's successes, and its failures, provide an essential road map for the future prosperity of immigrants and natives alike.
From the beginning of California’s statehood, adventurers, scientists, and writers reveled in its majestic landscape. Some were women, though few garnered attention or invitations to join the ...Sierra Club, the organization created in 1892 to preserve wilderness. Over the next sixty years the Sierra Club and other groups gained prestige and members—including an increasing number of women. But these organizations were not equipped to confront the massive growth of industry that overtook postwar California. This era needed a new approach, and it came from an unlikely source: white, middle-class housewives with no experience in politics. These women successfully battled smog, nuclear power plants, piles of garbage in the San Francisco Bay, and over-building in the Santa Monica Mountains. In At Home in the World Cairns shows how women were at the center of a broader and more inclusive environmental movement that looked beyond wilderness to focus on people’s daily life. These women challenged the approach long promoted by establishment groups and laid the foundation for the modern environmental movement.  
California is an infamously tough place to be poor: home to about
half of the entire nation's homeless population, burdened by
staggering home prices and unsustainable rental rates, California
is a ...state in crisis. But it wasn't always that way, as
prize-winning historian Josh Sides reveals in Backcountry
Ghosts . In 1862 President Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead
Act, the most ambitious and sweeping social policy in the history
of the United States. In the Golden State more than a hundred
thousand people filed homesteading claims between 1863 and the late
1930s. More than sixty thousand Californians succeeded, claiming
about ten million acres. In Backcountry Ghosts Josh Sides
tells the histories of these Californian homesteaders, their toil
and enormous patience, successes and failures, doggedness in the
face of natural elements and disasters, and resolve to defend
hard-earned land for themselves and their children. While some of
these homesteaders were fulfilling the American Dream-that all
Americans should have the opportunity to own land regardless of
their background or station-others used the Homestead Act to add to
already vast landholdings or control water or mineral rights. Sides
recovers the fascinating stories of individual homesteaders in
California, both those who succeeded and those who did not, and the
ways they shaped the future of California and the American West.
Backcountry Ghosts reveals the dangers of American
dreaming in a state still reeling from the ambitions that led to
the Great Recession.
African Americans who moved to California in hopes of finding
freedom and full citizenship instead faced all-too-familiar racial
segregation. As one transplant put it, "The only difference between
...Pasadena and Mississippi is the way they are spelled." From the
beaches to streetcars to schools, the Golden State-in contrast to
its reputation for tolerance-perfected many methods of controlling
people of color.
Lynn M. Hudson deepens our understanding of the practices that
African Americans in the West deployed to dismantle Jim Crow in the
quest for civil rights prior to the 1960s. Faced with
institutionalized racism, black Californians used both established
and improvised tactics to resist and survive the state's color
line. Hudson rediscovers forgotten stories like the experimental
all-black community of Allensworth, the California Ku Klux Klan's
campaign of terror against African Americans, the bitter struggle
to integrate public swimming pools in Pasadena and elsewhere, and
segregationists' preoccupation with gender and sexuality.
In the second half of the nineteenth century, the Euro-American citizenry of California carried out mass genocide against the Native population of their state, using the processes and mechanisms of ...democracy to secure land and resources for themselves and their private interests. The murder, rape, and enslavement of thousands of Native people were legitimized by notions of democracy-in this case mob rule-through a discreetly organized and brutally effective series of petitions, referenda, town hall meetings, and votes at every level of California government.
Murder Stateis a comprehensive examination of these events and their early legacy. Preconceptions about Native Americans as shaped by the popular press and by immigrants' experiences on the Overland Trail to California were used to further justify the elimination of Native people in the newcomers' quest for land. The allegedly "violent nature" of Native people was often merely their reaction to the atrocities committed against them as they were driven from their ancestral lands and alienated from their traditional resources.
In this narrative history employing numerous primary sources and the latest interdisciplinary scholarship on genocide, Brendan C. Lindsay examines the darker side of California history, one rarely studied in detail, and the motives of both Native Americans and Euro-Americans at the time. Murder State calls attention to the misuse of democracy to justify and commit genocide.
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