Building upon the popularity of this Special California History
program offered in 2016
We now offer Part II - All New
Presentions
California
Dreamin'
The Story of Migration and Immigration to the Golden State
Registration is offered for all three presentations
together, as a one day history conference, on Saturday,
January 28. Please note that our regularly scheduled ABDNHA
Lecture Series, on January 27, is on this same topic, as
described at the bottom of this page.
Part 1: Jan. 28, Sat., 10:00 am – 12:15 pm
Who are the Californians? The people who came here and
why they came
Speaker: Mary Jo Wainwright, History Professor,
Imperial Valley College
Professor Wainwright tells the story of
California's history in terms of immigration and
migration. Over the years, the California Dream has
taken different forms. For many, the dream has been the
land itself, for farming, vineyards, dairy, and
ranching. For others, it was gold, and then it was
oil. With America's westward expansion and the first
continental railroad, it was the promise of jobs that
pulled people to California. For others, it was the
opportunities of expanded trade and commerce that the
railroad brought with it. Hollywood and the movie
industry then carried the vision of the California
lifestyle to millions around the world, and before long,
California came to represent sunshine, a free spirit,
and an open road to the future—the very essence of
America itself. It was natural that the new
technologies of Silicon Valley were born in California.
Mary Jo Wainwright, is a professor of history at
Imperial Valley College in Imperial, California.
Her specialty is California history.
Part 2: Jan. 28, Sat., 1:30 pm – 2:30 pm
Westering
Women: Gender, Immigration, and Race in the American
West, 1850 - Present
Speaker: S. Deborah Kang,
Ph.D.
The history of American West is often depicted
as a man’s world filled with violent encounters between
hardy pioneers, brave soldiers, and defiant Native
Americans. But this account of western history conveys
only a small part of a larger and richer history, one
that includes the experiences of immigrant and American
women in the region. In this program, Dr. Kang will
trace the experiences of a multinational and multiracial
cast of women and explain the differences that gender
made in the American West. S. Deborah Kang has
taught immigration history and law at Cornell, Harvard,
and Berkeley. She is presently professor of
Western and Borderland History at CSU San Marcos.
Her research and publications focus on the relationship
between law and society along the nation’s northern and
southern borders
Part 3: Jan. 28, Sat., 6:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.
Effects of
Immigration on the Native People of San Diego
Speaker: Richard Carrico, Professor, American Indian
Studies, SDSU
The history of immigration into the
American West is central to America’s self-told story of the
American Dream and the concept of American Exceptionalism.
Yet when viewed from the perspective of the native Kumeyaay
people of Alta California and the Kumiai of Baja
California., immigration onto their traditional lands is as
much about the effects on the people who were already there
as on the new arrivals. Beginning in 1769, there were
successive waves of immigration into their territory—waves
perceived as unwanted, culturally disruptive, and
irreversible. Many of the effects were very harsh, with
religious conversions, confiscation of native lands,
destruction of the natural environment, and establishment of
a border that divides people who were previously together.
Professor Carrico will offer this alternate view of the
Spanish, Mexican, American, and Asian immigration into the
paradise that we call San Diego. There are many parallels
with the modern world as movements of people on a massive
scale superimpose new languages, new cultures, and new
religions on the well-established residents of the places
where immigrants go.
Richard Carrico is a Lecturer in the Department of
American Indian Studies at San Diego State University.
He specializes in Native American consultation, ethnography,
ethno history, history, and environmental compliance at the
local, state, and federal level.
Register for all three
Saturday Presentations.
Tickets for this program are not refundable |
The evening before our conference the following lecture
will be offered
ABDNHA Desert Lecture Series
Jan. 27, Fri., 7 p.m.
Meet the Speaker; 7:30 Lecture
The INS on the Line:
Making Law on the US-Mexico Border
Speaker: S. Deborah
Kang, Ph.D.
In this presentation, Dr. Kang will discuss her new
book, The INS on the Line: Making Law on the US-Mexico
Border, 1917-1954, (Oxford, 2017). In it, she argues that
for much of the 20th century local Immigration and
Naturalization Service (INS) officials not only enforced the
nation’s immigration laws, they also made them. In the
process, they developed a complex approach to border
control, an approach that closed the line in the name
of nativism and national security; opened it for the benefit
of transnational economic and social concerns; and redefined
it as a vast legal jurisdiction for the policing of
undocumented immigrants. Despite its local origins, this
approach to border control continues to influence the daily
operations of the nation’s immigration agencies, American
immigration law and policy, and our conceptions of the
US–Mexico border today.
- Space is
limited and available on a first-come-first-serve-basis for
this lecture.
- The lecture is free to ABDNHA members, $10 all others,
paid at door only.
- Registration for the Saturday programs does
not reserve a seat at
this Friday night lecture.
At the Borrego
Springs Performing Arts Center. Info: 760-767-3098.
Refreshments served. |
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