{"id":30766,"date":"2013-05-02T17:17:19","date_gmt":"2013-05-02T17:17:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=30766"},"modified":"2016-11-02T19:06:53","modified_gmt":"2016-11-02T19:06:53","slug":"becoming-mexipino-multiethnic-identities-and-communities-in-san-diego-fitzgerald-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=30766","title":{"rendered":"Becoming Mexipino: Multiethnic Identities and Communities in San Diego [FitzGerald Review]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1093\/jahist\/jas672\" target=\"_blank\">Becoming Mexipino: Multiethnic Identities and Communities in San Diego [FitzGerald Review]<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jah.oxfordjournals.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Journal of American History<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/jah.oxfordjournals.org\/content\/99\/4.toc\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 99, Issue 4<\/a> (2013)<br \/>\npages 1285-1286<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1093\/jahist\/jas672\" target=\"_blank\">10.1093\/jahist\/jas672<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/sociology.ucsd.edu\/faculty\/bio\/fitzgerald.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">David FitzGerald<\/a><\/strong>, Associate Professor of Sociology<br \/>\n<em>University of California, San Diego<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=18559\" target=\"_blank\">Becoming Mexipino: Multiethnic Identities and Communities in San Diego<\/a><\/em>. By Rudy P. Guevarra Jr. (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2012. xiv, 239 pp.)<\/p>\n<p>I recently bought a house in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/San_Diego\" target=\"_blank\">San Diego<\/a> whose records included a 1945 racial <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Covenant_(law)\" target=\"_blank\">covenant<\/a> stating that houses in the neighborhood would never be sold or occupied to \u201cpersons not of the white or Caucasian race.\u201d The original owners would have been distressed to learn that the house was sold to me by a Jewish and Vietnamese American couple and that one of the Mexican kids on the block boasts of learning <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Amharic_language\" target=\"_blank\">Amharic<\/a> from his Ethiopian classmates. <a href=\"https:\/\/sst.clas.asu.edu\/content\/rudy-guevarra-jr-0\" target=\"_blank\">Rudy P. Guevarra Jr.&#8217;s<\/a> book helped me understand the historical changes on my own street and draw broader lessons about U.S. immigration and ethnicity.<\/p>\n<p>Guevarra, a fourth-generation Mexipino from San Diego, makes major contributions to scholarship on the history of immigration to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/California\" target=\"_blank\">California<\/a> and the history of San Diego as he tells the forgotten story of ethnic mixing of thousands at Filipinos and Mexicans. Drawing on oral histories, census data, newspapers, and public records, he explains how a hostile racial atmosphere anchored in discriminatory law and hiring practices brought these two marginalized populations together. After the U.S. colonization&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read or purchase the review <a href=\"http:\/\/jah.oxfordjournals.org\/content\/99\/4\/1285.full.pdf+html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Becoming Mexipino: Multiethnic Identities and Communities in San Diego [FitzGerald Review] Journal of American History Volume 99, Issue 4 (2013) pages 1285-1286 DOI: 10.1093\/jahist\/jas672 David FitzGerald, Associate Professor of Sociology University of California, San Diego Becoming Mexipino: Multiethnic Identities and Communities in San Diego. By Rudy P. Guevarra Jr. (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2012. 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