Pub Date : 2020-10-30DOI: 10.1525/scq.2020.102.4.385
J. Hansen
Abstract:This article proposes that a history-of-knowledge approach offers innovative ways to study the use of domestic infrastructure in the household. More specifically, the article investigates the role of knowledge about water fixtures, such as meters, taps, and toilets, in the history of progressive-era Los Angeles. Building on the rich literature about how Los Angeles obtained its water, this article shifts the focus to the relationship that everyday consumers had with their water and how technology mediated this relationship. While the article analyzes three major fields of knowledge about the use of infrastructure (knowledge about personal and public hygiene, about the maintenance and repair of fittings, and about responsible levels of water consumption), it foregrounds users' agency in construing bodies of knowledge. Taken together, this article argues, first, that practical knowledge about water as a modern convenience was mutually developed by the utility's publicity department, meter men, municipal health authorities, elected officials, newspaper editors, middle-class reformers, property owners, working-class immigrants, and female householders. Second, the article emphasizes the dynamics, contingency, and locality of this knowledge, which was linked to the stunning growth of Los Angeles between 1880 and 1930.
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Pub Date : 2020-08-07DOI: 10.1525/scq.2020.102.3.316
S. Harvey
{"title":"Review: Border Land, Border Water: A History of Construction on the U.S.-Mexico Divide, by C. J. Alvarez","authors":"S. Harvey","doi":"10.1525/scq.2020.102.3.316","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/scq.2020.102.3.316","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":82755,"journal":{"name":"Southern California quarterly","volume":"102 1","pages":"316-318"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1525/scq.2020.102.3.316","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48786505","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-08-07DOI: 10.1525/scq.2020.102.3.311
M. Sheller
{"title":"Review: Colllisions at the Crossroads: How Place and Mobility Make Race, by Genevieve Carpio","authors":"M. Sheller","doi":"10.1525/scq.2020.102.3.311","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/scq.2020.102.3.311","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":82755,"journal":{"name":"Southern California quarterly","volume":"102 1","pages":"311-313"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1525/scq.2020.102.3.311","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47725897","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-08-07DOI: 10.1525/scq.2020.102.3.309
E. Wallis
{"title":"Review: Choosing To Care: A Century of Childcare and Social Reform in San Diego, 1850–1950, by Kyle E. Ciani","authors":"E. Wallis","doi":"10.1525/scq.2020.102.3.309","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/scq.2020.102.3.309","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":82755,"journal":{"name":"Southern California quarterly","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1525/scq.2020.102.3.309","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43359008","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-08-07DOI: 10.1525/scq.2020.102.3.222
Michael D. Aguirre
The issue of transborder mobility posed a dilemma for U.S. labor organizations and for border communities that embraced workers, customers, and family connections from Mexico. Labor leaders including Ernesto Galarza of the National Farm Labor Union (NFLU) and César Chávez of the United Farm Workers (UFW) had to find ways of protecting U.S. citizen workers and yet humanely addressing the plight of resident aliens, permitted commuters, and undocumented workers from Mexico. Their strategies involved knowledge production and had to accommodate emotions. The article focuses on the Imperial-Mexicali borderlands, 1950s–1970s.
{"title":"Identities, Quandaries, and Emotions","authors":"Michael D. Aguirre","doi":"10.1525/scq.2020.102.3.222","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/scq.2020.102.3.222","url":null,"abstract":"The issue of transborder mobility posed a dilemma for U.S. labor organizations and for border communities that embraced workers, customers, and family connections from Mexico. Labor leaders including Ernesto Galarza of the National Farm Labor Union (NFLU) and César Chávez of the United Farm Workers (UFW) had to find ways of protecting U.S. citizen workers and yet humanely addressing the plight of resident aliens, permitted commuters, and undocumented workers from Mexico. Their strategies involved knowledge production and had to accommodate emotions. The article focuses on the Imperial-Mexicali borderlands, 1950s–1970s.","PeriodicalId":82755,"journal":{"name":"Southern California quarterly","volume":"102 1","pages":"222-249"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1525/scq.2020.102.3.222","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49385750","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-08-07DOI: 10.1525/scq.2020.102.3.274
A. Rosas
Advocating the perspective of emotive history, this article looks at two examples of emotive archiving—the assembly of artifacts, photographs, oral interviews, and documents that record the feelings of Mexican immigrants as an inspiration for family members. The commitment and creativity of the archivist (usually a woman) is a feminist act of empowerment and an expression of love and honor to the subject of the archive, while the innermost feelings of the memorialized individual, often repressed from fear of apprehension and deportment, are expressed openly, forming a model for younger family members.
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Pub Date : 2020-08-07DOI: 10.1525/scq.2020.102.3.319
Keith D. Pluymers
{"title":"Review: Ellen Browning Scripps: New Money and American Philanthropy, by Molly McClain","authors":"Keith D. Pluymers","doi":"10.1525/scq.2020.102.3.319","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/scq.2020.102.3.319","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":82755,"journal":{"name":"Southern California quarterly","volume":"102 1","pages":"319-321"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1525/scq.2020.102.3.319","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49238967","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-08-07DOI: 10.1525/scq.2020.102.3.250
J. Ordaz
The impact of incarceration on the migrants in the federal immigration facility in El Centro, California, which operated from 1945 to 2014, is obscured by limited-access government records that emphasize the efficiency of the non-punitive immigration holding center. Direct observation revealed a restrictive environment, an authoritarian regime, and dehumanizing protocols. These discrepancies led to a search for information on the emotional impact of the facility on migrants incarcerated there. This required the collection of data from alternative sources, including interviews, private collections, photographs, activists’ correspondence, journalists’ investigations, and Mexican officials’ inquiries—an emotive archive.
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