Leonard Pitt is Professor Emeritus of History at California State University, Northridge. He is the coauthor, with Dale Pitt, of "Los Angeles A to Z: An Encyclopedia" (1997). Ramon A. Gutierrez is Associate Chancellor and Professor of Ethnic Studies and History at the University of California, San Diego, and is coeditor of "Contested Eden: California before the Gold Rush" (California, 1998).
"Focuses on the circumstances that caused the native-born Californians, or Californios, to lose numerical supremacy, land, political influence, and cultural dominance, and become a disadvantaged social group. It is the story of the decline but no less of the . . . perseverance of a subgroup which in the twentieth century was transformed into the largest minority in the Far West--the Mexican-Americans."--"Choice
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