The Latino Big Bang in California : The Diary of Justo Veytia, a Mexican Forty-Niner (Querencias Series)

Hayes-Bautista, David E. (EDT)/ Chamberlin, Cynthia L. (EDT)/ Gray, Paul Bryan (EDT)

University of New Mexico Press（2025/04発売）

University of New Mexico Press（2025/04発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 328 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780826368140
• DDC分類 979.404092

Full Description

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.

Contents

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