A World of Its Own: Race, Labor, and Citrus in the Making of Greater Los Angeles, 1900-1970

by Matt Garcia

Book Overview

Tracing the history of intercultural struggle and cooperation in the citrus belt of Greater Los Angeles, Matt Garcia explores the social and cultural forces that helped make the city the expansive and diverse metropolis that it is today.

As the citrus-growing regions of the San Gabriel and Pomona Valleys in eastern Los Angeles County expanded during the early twentieth century, the agricultural industry there developed along segregated lines,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807849839
• ISBN13: 9780807849835
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"