The Latino Big Bang in California

The Diary of Justo Veytia, a Mexican Forty-Niner

Buch | Softcover

328 Seiten

2025
University of New Mexico Press (Verlag)
978-0-8263-6814-0 (ISBN)

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The Latino Big Bang in California presents a Spanish transcription and English translation of a diary written by Forty-Niner Justo Veytia, a Mexican immigrant seeking riches during California's Gold Rush. Veytia's diary offers insights into the dilemmas and choices of an adventurous and ambitious young mexicano and provides a detailed glimpse into the life of Latinos who participated in this tumultuous moment in California history. In doing so, Veytia's diary demonstrates that the US-Mexico War together with the Gold Rush constituted a Latino "big bang" in California that attracted large swaths of fortune seekers from across the Spanish-speaking world throughout the latter half of the nineteenth century. Combining archival research with quantitative methods to extrapolate demographic information about the persistent presence of Latino communities in California from the mid-nineteenth century to today, The Latino Big Bang in California shows how Latino migration and labor forever changed the course of California history.

David E. Hayes-Bautista is a Distinguished Professor of Medicine and the director of the Center for the Study of Latino Health and Culture at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. He is also the author of El Cinco de Mayo: An American Tradition. Cynthia L. Chamberlin is the historian, editor, and translator at the Center for the Study of Latino Health and Culture at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. She is also the coauthor of a number of CESLAC's publications on the history of Latinos in California. Paul Bryan Gray is a California lawyer and historian and the author of A Clamor for Equality: Emergence and Exile of Californio Activist Francisco P. Ramírez.

Preface
Acknowledgments

Introduction. The Latino Big Bang in California and Justo Veytia, a Mexican ’49er
David E. Hayes-Bautista
Spanish Text of Justo Veytia’s Diary
English Translation of Justo Veytia’s Diary
Epilogue. After Justo Veytia Returned to Mexico, 1850–2022
Luis Jaime Veytia Orozco

Appendix 1. Relative Population Composition Factors for San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Luis Obispo, and Tuolumne Counties and Combined Counties for 1850, 1860, and 1870 Censuses
Appendix 2. Data to Estimate Latinos as Percent of California Population, 1860 and 1870
Notes
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	26.04.2025
Reihe/Serie	Querencias Series
Nachwort	Luis Jaime Veytia Orozco
Übersetzer	David E. Hayes-Bautista, Cynthia L. Chamberlin, Paul Bryan Gray
Zusatzinfo	30 halftones - 7 tables
Verlagsort	Albuquerque, NM
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Regional- / Landesgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-8263-6814-X / 082636814X
ISBN-13	978-0-8263-6814-0 / 9780826368140
Zustand	Neuware