
Published online:
18 May 2017
Published in print:
07 November 2016
Online ISBN:
9781469629292
Print ISBN:
9781469629278
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Racial Hierarchy in Colonial Mexico Racial Hierarchy in Colonial Mexico
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First Families in Los Angeles: The Case of the Pico Family First Families in Los Angeles: The Case of the Pico Family
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Racial Formation in Early Los Angeles Racial Formation in Early Los Angeles
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From Mexico to the American West: Whites and Mexicans in Early Los Angeles From Mexico to the American West: Whites and Mexicans in Early Los Angeles
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African Americans in Transitional Stages African Americans in Transitional Stages
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Chapter
1 Myths and Origins: Racial Formation in Los Angeles
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Pages
14–38
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Published:November 2016
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Campbell, Marne L., 'Myths and Origins: Racial Formation in Los Angeles', Making Black Los Angeles: Class, Gender, and Community, 1850-1917 (Chapel Hill, NC , 2016; online edn, North Carolina Scholarship Online, 18 May 2017), https://doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469629278.003.0001, accessed 6 May 2025.
Abstract
Chapter 1, “Myths and Origins” considers the earliest period of settlement in California (1781 – 1848) and the peculiar role of race during that time. It also examines the ways settlers of Afro-Latino descent affected the lives of African Americans a century later. Most importantly, this chapter explores California as an important landscape for establishing a racial hierarchy not only under Mexican rule, but also after it became United States territory (1848), by examining the ways in which African American settlers and other racial minorities in this early period contributed to defining race on the city’s frontier.
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African American History
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