Viewpoint: A contemporary vernacular: Latino landscapes in California's Central Valley

Building and Landscapes

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 1-12

  Buckley, James Michael ^a   Littmann, William ^b  

^a MIT's Department of Urban Studies and Planning   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 82455236227     PISSN: 19360886     EISSN: 19346832     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/bdl.2010.0001     Document Type: Article

References (32)

1. Richard A. Walker, The Conquest of Bread: 150 Years of Agribusiness in California (New York: The New Press, 2004), 1-9, 42-44, 48-75, 147-201.
2. We are indebted to Paul Groth and Kevin Enns-Rempel for their invaluable assistance in discovering and understanding Parlier as well as the surrounding agricultural landscape in Fresno County.
3. The unemployment rate of Parlier has been around 25 percent this decade, and 40 percent of the families in Parlier live below the poverty line. Information on poverty in Parlier can be found in the U.S. Housing and Urban Development news release titled, "HUD Announces Parlier Selected as Renewal Community-Eligible for $17 Billion in Tax Incentives, " January 23, 2002, http://www.hud.gov/news/release.cfm?content=pr02-013par.cfm (accessed June 9, 2010).
4. On how this political leadership has tried to create an economically diverse landscape of housing, see Ed Kissam, "Parlier's Prospects: Local Government's Role in Integrating Immigrants into Rural California Life, " a paper prepared for the conference Immigration and the Changing Face of Rural California: Focus on the San Joaquin Valley, held in Parlier, California, September 1998. This conference was organized by the Changing Face project, an organization hosted by the University of California, Davis, that studies the lives of migrants in rural America.
5. Carey McWilliams, Factories in the Field: The Story of Migratory Farm Labor in California (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1939).
6. Don Mitchell, The Lie of the Land: Migrant Workers and the California Landscape (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1996).
7. Information about Parlier's founding can be found on the city's Web site, http://www.parlier.ca.us/about/history.htm. See also David Griffith, Ed Kissam, Jerónimo Camposeco et al., Working Poor: Farmworkers in the United States (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1995), 191-93.
8. David Runsten, Ed Kissam, and JoAnn Intili, "Parlier: The Farmworker Service Economy, " paper prepared for the Conference on the Changing Face of Rural California, Asilomar, California, June 12-14, 1995, 2-3.
9. Griffith, Kissam, Camposeco, et al., "Working Poor, " 193.
10. Larry Trujillo, "Parlier: The Hub of Raisin America, A Local History of Capitalist Development" (University of California, Berkeley: Institute for the Study of Social Change, Working Paper Series #104, 1978), 20-24.
11. Walker, Conquest of Bread, 72-73.
12. Griffith, Kissam and Camposeco, et al., Working Poor, 193-94.
13. Adaljiza Sosa Riddell and Robert Aguallo, Jr., "A Case of Chicano Politics: Parlier, California, " Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies 9, no. 1-2 (1978): 1-15.
14. Jacques E. Levy and César Chávez, Cesar Chavez: Autobiography of La Causa (New York: Norton, 1975), 500-501.
15. Runsten, Kissam, and Intili, "Parlier, " 1.
16. Riddell and Aguallo, "Parlier, " 9-15.
17. Runsten, Kissam, and Intili, "Parlier, " 3.
18. "Immigrants Change the Face of Rural America, " Issue Report, Farm Foundation, January, 2005, 3, http://www.farmfoundation.org/news/articlefiles/105-FinalFInalIssueReportJanuary05.pdf (accessed June 9, 2010); "Raisins, Mexican Food, and Parlier's Future, " paper prepared for the Conference on the Changing Face of Rural California, Parlier, September 9-10 and October 8, 2004. In 2003, the Department of Housing and Urban Development reported that Parlier was the second poorest city in California. This data can be found in "HUD Announces Parlier Selected as Renewal Community-Eligible For $17 Billion in Tax Incentives."
19. Kissam, "Parlier's Prospects. "
20. Changing Face project, "Raisins, Mexican Food, and Parlier's Future. "
21. Don Villarejo and Marc Schenker, "Environmental Health Policy and California's Farm Labor Housing, " report prepared for the John Muir Institute on the Environment, University of California, Davis, October 1, 2006, 20.
22. Kissam, "Parlier's Prospects. "
23. Kissam, "Parlier's Prospects. "
24. "Census Figures Challenge Views of Race and Ethnicity, " New York Times, January 21, 2010, accessed online at: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/22/us/22census.html.
25. U.S. Census Bureau, "Hispanics in the United States, " 2006, http://www.census.gov/population/www/socdemo/hispanic/files/Internet_Hispanic_in_US_2006.pdf.
26. Andrew Sandoval-Strausz, "Latino Landscapes: Immigration and Urbanism, 1945-2000" (unpublished paper delivered at the 2009 VAF Conference in Butte, Montana).
27. Sarah Lynn Lopez, "Migrant Remittances and the Mexican State: An Emergent Transnational Development Model?"(University of California at Berkeley: Institute for the Study of Social Change, July 2009), retrieved from: http://escholarship.org/uc/item/58k8g8zm (accessed June 9, 2010).
28. On the Parlier Migrant Center, see "Raisins, Mexican Food, and Parlier's Future. "
29. Runsten, Kissam, and Intili, "Parlier, " 39.
30. Kissam, "Parlier's Prospects. "
31. Michael Pollan, The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals (New York: Penguin, 2006).
32. Quote from Michael Pollan's June 12, 2009, interview with the online Web magazine The Tyee, interview conducted by David Beers, http://thetyee. ca/Books/2009/06/12/PollanGardenFresh/(accessed June 9, 2010).