African Americans in the Rural San Joaquin Valley, California: : Colonization Efforts and Townships by Eissinger, Michael

African Americans in the Rural San Joaquin Valley, California: : Colonization Efforts and Townships (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781440486678)

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African Americans in the Rural San Joaquin Valley, California: : Colonization Efforts and Townships by Eissinger, Michael

African Americans in the Rural San Joaquin Valley, California: : Colonization Efforts and Townships

$14.95
African Americans in the Rural San Joaquin Valley, California: : Colonization Efforts and Townships by Eissinger, Michael

African Americans in the Rural San Joaquin Valley, California: : Colonization Efforts and Townships

$14.95
Format: Paperback
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This ethnohistorical study examines rural 19th and 20th century African American enclaves across the agricultural landscape of California's Central Valley. Agricultural labor contractors, beginning in the 1880s, recruited large numbers of southern African Americans. This thesis focuses on several almost invisible black communities from that period.Eissinger differentiates planned colonies, such as Allensworth from other historically African American settlements like Cookseyville, Bowles, Fairmead, Sunny Acres, South Dos Palos, Home Garden, Teviston, and Lanare, which grew outside existing towns. Utilizing interviews, newspaper clippings, archival sources, and census data, the author sheds light on the impact of African Americans on the rural landscape of the Valley.

Author: Michael Eissinger
ISBN-10: 1440486670
ISBN-13: 9781440486678
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 01/07/2009
Pages: 166
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 10.00h x 7.99w x 0.35d
By Michael Eissinger
By Michael Eissinger
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Michael Eissinger is currently completing his Ph.D. in World Cultures at the University of California, Merced. Over the course of the past several years he has taught History, Ethnic Studies, and Sociology classes at Fresno City College; West Hills Community College, Lemoore; and several campused of Chapman/Brandman University.

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