About the Author

Yvette J. Saavedra is an assistant professor of history at California State University, San Bernardino.

Reviews

Yvette J. Saavedra shows how issues of race and class and gender made and remade local society in Southern California, and how power and politics shaped this region across the long nineteenth century.""—Stephen Pitti, Department of History, Yale University

""Pasadena Before the Roses complicates how we understand the early Los Angeles area. Using an intersectional lens, Saavedra has tapped into a wealth of primary sources to conduct this research and, in doing so, has joined the ranks of some of the best Chicana historians.""—Marne L. Campbell, African American Studies, Loyola Marymount University