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California Gold Rush. Historian Susan Lee Johnson reveals a period marked by multicultural relations with the bringing together of Mexicans, French, Chinese, African-Americans, Chileans and Miwok Indians all panning for gold alongside their WASP counterparts in the foothills of the Sierra Nevadas. Cultural collisons generated both humor and ugly crimes. Absence of women folk raised gender issues in ways that further fed into the already complex struggles for ethnic and cultural hegemony (such as tendencies to feminize Chinese laundry men and French cooks). Author reminds us in the Epilogue, happenings and social complexities of 150 years ago during the Gold Rush are not unlike those of our own era of "concentrated human diversity and congealed human inequity."
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Johnson explores the dynamic social world created by the Gold Rush in the Sierra Nevada foothills east of Stockton, charting the surprising ways in which the conventions of identity -- ethnic, national, and sexual -- were reshaped. With a keen eye for character and story, she shows us how this peculiar world evolved over time, and how our cultural memory of the Gold Rush took root.
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The California Gold Rush is commonly identified with the peculiarly American movement of Manifest Destiny, but as Johnson reveals in this informative study of the period, the Gold Rush was in fact one of the most cosmopolitan and multicultural events of the 19th century. Mexicans, French, Chinese, African-Americans, Chileans and Miwok Indians all panned for gold alongside their WASP counterparts in the foothills of the Sierra Nevadas. The collision of these cultures sometimes led to humorous misunderstandings (as when Chinese miners mirthfully watched a white colleague struggle to use chopsticks), but just as frequently it produced ugly crimes, like when Mexican prospector Joaquin Murrieta was assaulted and evicted from his mining claim by jealous whites. Complicating relations in the mines was the almost complete absence of women; Johnson shows how men of all races found themselves reassessing gender roles in ways that had everything to do with ethnicity and cultural hegemony. For example, Anglo miners tended to feminize Chinese and French men, who made their fortunes in laundry and cooking as often as in mining gold. Johnson skillfully investigates the ramifications of these social pressures, though at times she surrenders to the ivory tower habit of interpreting the interpretations, analyzing the discourse about events instead of the events themselves. Hers is an intensely academic brand of social history: readers will find phrases like "homosocial," "gendered meanings" and "constructions of race" liberally sprinkled throughout the text. Underneath the jargon, however, is a valuable study of the complex, often troubled societies that contributed to one of America's great national mythologies. 15 photos, 1 map. (Jan.) Copyright 1999 Cahners Business Information.Product Details
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Meet the Author
Susan Lee Johnson is professor of history at the University of Colorado, Boulder.
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