Chapter 8: CA’s Social Landscapes

• Gold Rush– Social Freedoms– Racial & Ethnic Diversity– Women– Cities– Super Wealth

• Ken Burns’ The West: A Speck of the Future

• Sutter's Mill, where California gold was discovered. This engraving, as it appeared in Gleason Pictorial Drawing Room Companion, shows the mill and the town of Coloma in the background.

• Sam Brannan

• Barbary prostitutes, San Francisco

Race & Ethnicity in CA

• Defining Race, Ethnicity & Racism• Chinese

– Gold Rush, Railroad, Agriculture

• Japanese– Internment WWII

• More Recent Asian Arrivals– Koreans, Vietnamese, Hmongs, Filipinos,

Pacific Islanders

Asian Groups

• Chinese– Gold Rush– Railroad– Post RR: Growing Anti-Chinese Sentiment– 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act

San Francisco’s Chinatown in the 1890s, photograph by Arnold Genthe

Chinese lettuce cutters in a California field, 1905

• Anti-Chinese Song

Political smear from 1867, againstGeorge C. Gorham’s gubernatorialbid in California

• Japanese– CA Alien Land Law of 1913– Internment

Little Tokyo after eviction ©Los Angeles Public Library

Little Tokyo after eviction

©Los Angeles Public Library

Tule Lake arrival©From the Special Collections

Department, J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah

Tule Lake perimeter© Special Collections Department, J. Willard Marriott Library,

University of Utah, and Private Collections.

Tule Lake high school© Special Collections Department, J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah

Tule Lake elementary school© Special Collections Department, J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah

Tule Lake baseball

© Special Collections Department, J. Willard Marriott Library, University of

Utah

• Recent Asian Immigration to CA– Hong Kong, Taiwan– Vietnamese– Koreans– Filipinos– Hmong– Pacific Islanders