Community, ethnicity, and class in a changing rural California town

Rural Sociology

Volumn 70, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 314-335

  Chávez, Sergio ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT; COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION; CULTURAL RELATIONS; ETHNICITY; IMMIGRANT; RURAL SOCIETY; VOLUNTARY APPROACH;

CALIFORNIA; CENTRAL VALLEY; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 34247609778     PISSN: 00360112     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1526/0036011054831224     Document Type: Article

References (61)

1. Allensworth, E. M. and R. Rochin. 1998. "Ethnic Transformation in Rural California: Looking Beyond the Immigrant Farmworker." Rural Sociology 63:26-50.
2. Alleyne, B. 2002. "An Idea of Community and Its Discontents: Towards a More Reflexive Sense of Belonging in Multicultural Britain." Ethnic and Racial Studies 25:607-627.
3. Barth, F. 1969. Ethnic Groups and Boundaries: The Social Organization of Culture Difference. Boston: Little, Brown and Company.
4. Bell, C. and H. Newby. 1971. Community Studies: An Introduction to the Sociology of the Local Community. London: George Allen and Unwin Ltd.
5. Bell, M. M. 1992. "The Fruit of Difference: The Rural-Urban Continuum as a System of Identity." Rural Sociology 57:65-82.
6. Belsky, J. M. 1999. "Misrepresenting Communities: The Politics of Community-Based Ecotourism in Gales Point Manatee, Belize." Rural Sociology 64:641-666.
7. Chavez, L. R. 1992. Shadowed Lives: Undocumented Immigrants In American Society. Fort Worth, Texas: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich College Publishers.
8. Cohen, A. J. 1985. The Symbolic Construction of Community. New York: Tavistock Publications.
9. Davis, M. 1992. City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles. New York: Vintage Books.
10. Durkheim, E. 1933. The Division of Labor in Society. New York: Free Press.
11. Eckstein, S. 2001. "Community as Gift-Giving: Collectivistic Roots of Volunteerism." American Sociological Review 66:829-851.
12. Ensminger, D., and R. A. Poison. 1946. "The Concept of Community." Rural Sociology 11:43-51.
13. Fujimoto, I. and M. Carter. 1998. "Getting to Know the Central Valley." Davis, California: California Institute for Rural Studies.
14. Gardner, R. O. 2004. "The Portable Community: Mobility and Modernization in Bluegrass Festival Life." Symbolic Interaction 27:155-178.
15. Goldring, L. 1998. "The Power of Status in Transnational Social Fields." Pp. 165-195 in Transnationalism from Below, Comparative Urban and Community Research, edited by L. Guarnizo and M.P. Smith. New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers.
16. Grey, M. A. and A. C. Woodrick. 2002. "Unofficial Sister Cities: Meatpacking Labor Migration Between Villachauto, Mexico and Marshalltown, Iowa." Human Organization 61:364-376.
17. Gupta, A. and J. Ferguson. 1997. "Culture, Power, Place: Ethnography at the End of an Era." Pp. 1-29 in Culture, Power, Place: Explorations in Critical Anthropology, edited by A. Gupta and J. Ferguson. Durham and London: Duke University Press.
18. Gutiérrez, D. G. 1995. Walls and Mirrors: Mexican Americans, Mexican Immigrants, and the Politics of Ethnicity. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press.
19. Hawley, A. H. 1986. Human Ecology: A Theoretical Essay. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
20. Hillery, G. A. 1955. "Definitions of Community: Areas of Agreement." Rural Sociology 20:111-123.
21. Hondagneu-Sotelo, P. 1994. Gendered Transitions: Mexican Experiences of Immigration. Berkeley: University of California Press.
22. Kaufman, H. F. 1959. "Toward an Interactional Conception of Community." Social Forces 38:8-17.
23. Krissman, F. 1995. "Cycles of Poverty in Rural California Towns: Comparing McFarland and Farmersville in the Southern San Joaquin Valley." Presented at the conference on Immigration and the Changing Face of Rural California, June 12-14, Asilomar, California.
24. MacTavish, K., and S. Salamon. 2001. "Mobile Home Park on the Prairie: A New Rural Community Form." Rural Sociology 66:487-506.
25. Massey, D. 1987. "Understanding Mexican Migration to the United States." American Journal of Sociology 92:1372-1403.
26. Menchaca, M. 1995. The Mexican Outsiders: A Community History of Marginalization and Discrimination in California. Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press.
27. Molotch, H. 1976. "The City as a Growth Machine: Toward a Political Economy of Place." American Journal of Sociology 82:309-332.
28. Morris, F. 1963. "Toward an Operational Definition of Community." Rural Sociology 28:117-127.
29. Nagel, J. 1994. "Constructing Ethnicity: Creating and Recreating Ethnic Identity and Culture." Social Problems 41:152-176.
30. Naples, N. 1994. "Contradictions in Agrarian Ideology: Restructuring Gender, Race-Ethnicity, and Class." Rural Sociology 59:110-135.
31. _. 2000. "Economic Restructuring and Racialization: Incorporation of Mexican and Mexican-Americans in the Rural Midwest." Working Paper 7, Lajolla, California: The Center for Comparative Immigration Studies, University of California San Diego.
32. Neal, S. 2002. "Rural Landscapes, Representations and Racism: Examining Multicultural Citizenship and Policy-Making in the English Countryside." Ethnic and Racial Studies 25:442-461.
33. Newman, K. S. 2001. "Local Caring: Social Capital and Social Responsibility in New York's Minority Neighborhoods." Pp. 157-177 in Caring and Doing for Others: Social Responsibility in the Domains of Family, Work, and Community, edited by A.S. Rossi. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press.
34. O'Connell, D. J. 2001. "Aqui Somos Pobres, Alla Somos Ricos Language, Education and Social Reproduction: Neocolonial Strategies in the Reproduction of Inequality." M.A. thesis, University of California Davis.
35. Orozco, C. E. 1994. "Beyond Machismo, La Familia, and Ladies Auxiliaries: A Historiography of Mexican-Origin Women's Participation in Voluntary Associations in the United States, 1870-1990." Renata Rosaldo Lecture Series Monograph, Mexican American Studies & Research Center 10, 1992-93:37-77.
36. Palerm, J. V. 1991. "Farm Labor Needs and Farmworkers in California." Sacramento, California: Employment Development Department.
37. Pardo, M. 1998. Mexican American Women Activists: Identity and Resistance in Two Los Angeles Communities. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
38. Pfeffer, M. J. and P. A. Parra. 2003. The Limits of Social Capital for Immigrant Integration in Rural Communities. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Rural Sociological Society, July/August, Montreal.
39. Pichardo, N. A. 1992. "The Establishment and Development of Chicano Voluntary Associations in California, 1910-1930." Aztlan: A Journal of Chicano Studies, Fall 1988-1990 19:93-116.
40. Portes, A. 1998. "Social Capital: Its Origins and Applications in Modern Sociology." Annual Review of Sociology 24:1-24.
41. Portes, A. and J. Sensenbrenner. 1993. "Embeddedness and Immigration: Notes on the Social Determinants of Economic Action." American Journal of Sociology 98:1320-1350.
42. Putnam, R. 1996. "The Strange Disappearance of Civic America." The American Prospect 24:34-48.
43. _. 2000. Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community. New York: Simon and Schuster.
44. Rodriguez, C. 1993. "Chicanos in Politics: Learning to Participate and Organize." Pp. 75-94 in Healing Multicultural America: Mexican Immigrants Rise to Power in Rural California, edited by H.T. Trueba, C. Rodriguez, Y. Zou, and J. Cintrón. Washington, DC: The Falmer Press.
45. Rossi, A. S. 2001. "Contemporary Dialogue on Civil Society and Social Responsibility." Pp. 3-72 in Caring and Doing for Others: Social Responsibility in the Domains of Family, Work, and Community, edited by A.S. Rossi. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press.
46. Rouse, R. 1991. "Mexican Migration and the Social Space of Postmodernism." Diaspora 1:8-23.
47. Salamon, S. 2003a. "From Hometown to Nontown: Rural Community Effects of Suburbanization." Rural Sociology 68:1-24.
48. _. 2003b. Newcomers to Old Towns: Suburbanization of the Heartland. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press.
49. Salamon, S. and J. B. Tornatore. 1994. "Territory Contested Through Property in a Midwestern Post-Agricultural Community." Rural Sociology 59:636-654.
50. Sanderson, D. and R. A. Polson. 1939. Rural Community Organization. New York: John Wiley and Sons, Inc.
51. Selznick, P. 1992. The Moral Commonwealth: Social Theory and the Promise of Community. Berkeley: University of California Press.
52. Soto-Alberti, C. 1992. "Evaluation of a 4-H Youth Development Program in Conjunction with Adult Night School: Benefits to the Hispanic Clientele." M.Ed, thesis, University of California, Davis.
53. Takaki, R. 1993. A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America. Boston: Little, Brown and Company.
54. Tauxe, C. S. 1998. "Heartland Community: Economic Restructuring and the Management of Small Town Identity in the Central U.S." Identities 5:335-377.
55. Tonnies, F. 1957. Community and Society: Gemeinschafl and Gesellschaft. Translated and edited by C.P. Loomis. East Lansing: Michigan University Press.
56. U.S. Census Bureau. 2000. Census 2000 Summary File Summary File 1 and 3. Retrieved June 20, 2003 (http://factfinder.census.gov).
57. Vila, P. 2000. Crossing Border, Reinforcing Borders: Social Categories, Metaphors, and Narrative Identities on the U.S.-Mexico Frontier. Austin: University of Texas Press.
58. Walton, J. 1997. "Cannery Row: Class, Community, and the Social Construction of History. "Pp. 243-283 in Reworking Class, edited by J.R. Hall. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press.
59. Wilkinson, K. P. 1991. The Community in Rural America. New York: Greenwood Press.
60. Young, F. W. 1999. Small Towns in Multilevel Society. Lanham: University Press of America.
61. Zhou, M. 1992. Chinatown: The Socioeconomic Potential of an Urban Enclave. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.