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| Title | : | Uninvited Neighbors: African Americans in Silicon Valley, 1769–1990 (Race and Culture in the American West Series) |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.58 (985 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 080614436X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 352 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-10-24 |
| Language | : | English |
Ruffin II is Assistant Professor of History and African American Studies at Syracuse University.. About the AuthorHerbert G
In the late 1960s, African American protests and Black Power demonstrations in California’s Santa Clara County—including what’s now called Silicon Valley—took many observers by surprise. The book also addresses the scattering of the black community during the region’s late yet rapid urban growth after 1950, which led to the creation of several distinct black suburban communities clustered in metropolitan San Jose.Ruffin treats people of color as agents of their own development and survival in a region that was always multiracial and where slavery and Jim Crow did not predominate, but where the white embrace of racial justice and equality was often insincere. Ruffin explores the quest of the area’s black people for the postwar American Dream. After all, as far back as the 1890s, the California constitution had legally abolished most forms of racial discrimination, and subsequent legal reform had surely taken care of the rest. Ruffin II’s study presents the black experience in a new way, with a focus on how, despite their smaller numbers and obscure presence, African Americans in the South Bay forged communities that had a regional and national impact dis
Herbert G. Ruffin II is Assistant Professor of History and African American Studies at Syracuse University.
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