{"id":51162,"date":"2017-01-15T00:49:42","date_gmt":"2017-01-15T00:49:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=51162"},"modified":"2017-01-15T00:54:53","modified_gmt":"2017-01-15T00:54:53","slug":"a-blaxicans-journey-through-fresnos-racial-landscape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=51162","title":{"rendered":"A Blaxican\u2019s Journey through Fresno\u2019s Racial\u00a0Landscape"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Blaxican\u2019s Journey through Fresno\u2019s Racial\u00a0Landscape<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Tropics Of Meta: historiography for the masses<\/a>
\n2017-01-13<\/p>\n

Raymond A. Rey<\/strong><\/p>\n

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In the summer of 1973, DJ Kool Herc<\/a> tried something new on the turntables<\/a>: by extending the beat<\/a>, breaking and scratching the record<\/a>, he allowed people to dance longer and entertained them with his rhymes as an MC<\/a>. After that moment, everything changed. The sound that emerged out of the South Bronx<\/a> in New York City<\/a> led to a cultural movement that changed the lives of generations around the world. For Phillip Walker, a mixed race kid from Fresno, California<\/a>, hip-hop<\/a> not only served as the soundtrack of his youth, but provided a way to understand his neighborhood and build a multiethnic community.<\/p>\n

Phillip Ernest Walker Jr. was born on January 28, 1976 in Fresno, California. He is the son of a Black father from Camden, Tennessee<\/a> and a Mexican mother from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico<\/a>. While coming from different countries, both families had backgrounds in agriculture and both found their way to the Central San Joaquin Valley<\/a> and eventually Fresno\u2019s west side. The Walkers from Tennessee<\/a> migrated to California <\/a>slowly after uncle James Walker completed his service in the United States Navy<\/a>. He was stationed for a time at Naval Air Station in Lemoore<\/a> and upon completing his service in 1967, he convinced his brother Phillip Walker Sr. to join him in the Central Valley<\/a>. There, the two black men found a lifestyle not too different from what they had experienced in Tennessee: wide open spaces, vast acres of farmland, and a slow pace. \u00a0The sons of a skilled mechanic, they set down roots in Fresno.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the Magdalenos crossed a border and multiple state lines before settling in the Valley. Milagros, Phillip\u2019s mother, was the daughter of Gregoria and Genaro Magdaleno. Genaro was also a mechanic and moved his family across the Southwest<\/a> in search of work on farm labor camps. The tragic loss of Genaro\u2019s beloved wife led the family to the Central Valley. They arrived in Delano<\/a>, where Genaro\u2019s brother and sister helped raise his children, and then they moved to Fresno. For a time the Magdalenos settled in the \u201cgolden west side,\u201d a place that the Walkers from Tennessee already called home…<\/p>\n

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