The decline of the Californios

By Ramon A. Gutierrez, Leonard Pitt

Subjects: History.., Ethnic Studies - General, United States - State & Local - General, Mexican Americans, History - U.S., United States - General, California, history, Américains d'origine mexicaine, History: American, Histoire, USA, c 1800 to c 1900, Ethnic studies, Social Science, Spaniards, Hispanos, Local history, History / General, Sozialgeschichte, Mexicans, united states, California, social conditions, Hispanic Americans, California, History, History of specific racial & ethnic groups, Espagnols, Photographie, Mexican americans, United States - 19th Century/Old West

Description: Publisher description: A striking addition to the literature of ethnic minorities, this book deals with the early struggles of the Spanish-speaking people of California. It focuses on the circumstances that caused the native-born Californians, or Californios, to lose numerical supremacy, land, political influence, and cultural dominance, and become a disadvantaged social group. It is the story of the decline but no less of the valiant perserverance of a subgroup which in the twentieth century was transformed into the largest minority in the Far West - the Mexican-Americans.