CIIS Faculty Publications
Title
Deep California: Images and Ironies of Cross and Sword on El Camino Real
Files
Description
California has been invaded by three imperial powers: Spain, Mexico, and the United States. Deep California examines in depth the lingering psychological traumas and motifs emanating from that long history of conquest. These unhealed events have not been left in the past: they recur symbolically again and again, growing in intensity as the overbuilt land and its distracted occupiers unconsciously but definitively demonstrate that environmental justice and social justice can no longer be thought of as separate.Pacing crusaders and colonizers from county to county along El Camino Real, Deep California studies the lingering impact of continuous oppression of people and places as images and themes of displacement and exile filter down into architecture, agriculture, politics, art, culture, psychology, and even folklore and dream. Yet within the shadows cast over California also dwell resistance, humor, irony, tragedy, and hope for more heartfelt and soulful connections to this story-rich "land of the sundown sea.
ISBN
978-0595514625
Publication Date
2008
Publisher
iUniverse
City
Bloomington, Indiana
Keywords
California, United States-History
Disciplines
Cultural History | Human Ecology | Political History | Regional Sociology | United States History
Recommended Citation
Chalquist, Craig, "Deep California: Images and Ironies of Cross and Sword on El Camino Real" (2008). CIIS Faculty Publications. 34.
https://digitalcommons.ciis.edu/facultypublications/34