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13.8: Suggested Readings

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    • Robert W. Cherny, Gretchen Lemke-Santangelo, & Richard Griswold del Castillo
    • San Francisco State University, Saint Mary's College of California, & San Diego State University via Self Published

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    • Anderson, Alissa, with Macías, Raúl, Policy Points: New Data Show That California’s Income Gaps Continue to Widen (Sacramento: California Budget Project, 2009). Online at http://www.cbp.org/pdfs/2009/0906_pp_Inco meGaps.pdf . A sobering examination of recent economic data.
    • Baldassare, Mark, and Ramakrishnan, S. Karthick, The Ties That Bind: Changing Demographics and Civic Engagement in California (Sacramento: Public Policy Institute of California, 2004). An overview of social and political change by prominent public policy analysts.
    • Barron, Stephanie, Bernstein, Sheri, and Fort, Ilene Susan, Made in California: Art, Image, and Identity, 1900–2000 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000). An interesting survey of California’s influence on American creativity, including art, film, and fashion.
    • Carle, David, Introduction to Water in California (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009). A good overview of state water policy and its environmental impacts.
    • Chávez, Lydia, Color Bind: California’s Struggle to End Affirmative Action (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1998). A thorough and balanced study of Proposition 209.
    • Davidson, Stephen, Still Broken (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2010). This work, while national in focus, provides important context for understanding California’s current health care crisis.
    • Hayes-Bautista, David E., et al., No Longer a Minority: Latinos and Social Policy in California (Los Angeles: UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center Publications, 1992). The economic and social impact of the growth of Latino populations in California, focusing on public policy issues.
    • Palmer, Tim, ed., California’s Threatened Environment: Restoring the Dream (Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 1993). A collection of essays on environmental topics, focusing on damage to the environment.
    • Rao, Arun, and Scaruffi, Piero, A History of Silicon Valley: The Greatest Creation of Wealth in the History of the Planet: A Moral Tale (Palo Alto: Omniware Publishing, 2011). A recent and occasionally judgmental history of Silicon Valley by a sometimes participant.
    • Saito, Leland, Race and Politics: Asian Americans, Latinos, and Whites in a Los Angeles Suburb (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1999). A sociological study of race and ethnicity as related to political mobilization and economic redevelopment in the San Gabriel Valley of Los Angeles County.
    • Schrag, Peter, California: America’s High-Stakes Experiment (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008). Recent California politics, by one of the state’s leading political journalists.
    • U.S. Census Bureau, 2010 American Community Survey: California, Selected Social, Economic, Housing, and Demographic Characteristics. Online at http://www.census.gov/acs/www/. The most recent statistical information on immigration, race/ethnicity, income, poverty, housing, education, unemployment, life expectancy, etc.
    • Yáñez-Chávez, Aníbal, ed., Latino Politics in California (La Jolla: Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies, University of California, San Diego, 1996). An anthology of the impact of the Latino demographic majority on electoral politics in California.

    Note: In addition, for state politics since 1990, consult the California Journal, Los Angeles Times, Sacramento Bee, and San Francisco Chronicle.


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