{"id":33825,"date":"2013-09-23T18:47:48","date_gmt":"2013-09-23T18:47:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=33825"},"modified":"2013-09-23T18:47:48","modified_gmt":"2013-09-23T18:47:48","slug":"%e2%80%98making-a-non-white-america%e2%80%99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=33825","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Making a Non-White America\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/calstate.fullerton.edu\/news\/Inside\/2009\/allison-varzally-book-ethnic-history.html\" target=\"_blank\">\u2018Making a Non-White America\u2019<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.fullerton.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">inside: CSUF News<\/a><br \/>\nCalifornia State University, Fullerton<br \/>\n2009-08-18<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mimi Ko Cruz<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/hss.fullerton.edu\/history\/faculty\/a_varzally.asp\" target=\"_blank\">Allison Varzally\u2019s<\/a> Book About California&#8217;s Ethnic History Wins National Award<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Interracial marriages and other ties in diverse communities throughout California during the formative years of the 20th century are explored in Allison Varzally\u2019s book, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=33813\" target=\"_blank\">Making a Non-White America: Californians Coloring outside Ethnic Lines, 1925-1955<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Published by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ucpress.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">University of California Press<\/a>, Varzally\u2019s book has won the Immigration and Ethnic History Society\u2019s 2009 Theodore Saloutos Memorial Award in American Immigration History.<\/p>\n<p>The award, which comes with $1,000, is presented for the book judged best on any aspect of the immigration history of the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Varzally, assistant professor of history, said the honor \u201cis exciting recognition from an organization that I admire.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome of my favorite books in the field have won this award,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Varzally, of Los Angeles, uses the voices from oral histories she conducted to weave a scholarly interpretation on the state\u2019s history. She touches on World War II, the Zoot suit riots, discriminatory laws, segregation, class, politics, religion, work and education.<\/p>\n<p>The book\u2019s cover features a picture of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sugar_Pie_DeSanto\" target=\"_blank\">Sugar Pie De Santo<\/a>, a Filipina-black woman who grew up in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fillmore_District,_San_Francisco\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco\u2019s Fillmore District<\/a> in the 1940s.<\/p>\n<p>De Santo, Varzally said, \u201ccreatively and selectively borrowed from her parents\u2019 cultures, enjoyed her blended family background and became a famous musician.\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/calstate.fullerton.edu\/news\/Inside\/2009\/allison-varzally-book-ethnic-history.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Making a Non-White America\u2019 inside: CSUF News California State University, Fullerton 2009-08-18 Mimi Ko Cruz Allison Varzally\u2019s Book About California&#8217;s Ethnic History Wins National Award Interracial marriages and other ties in diverse communities throughout California during the formative years of the 20th century are explored in Allison Varzally\u2019s book, \u201cMaking a Non-White America: Californians Coloring [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2895,459,20],"tags":[15903,5126,15911,15912,15913],"class_list":["post-33825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-campus-life","category-history","category-usa","tag-allison-varzally","tag-california-state-university-at-fullerton","tag-inside-csuf-news","tag-mimi-ko-cruz","tag-sugar-pie-de-santo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33825\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}