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Carey McWilliams (1905–1980)

Author of Southern California: An Island on the Land

19+ Works 715 Members 10 Reviews 1 Favorited

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Includes the names: Carey McWiliams, Carey Mc Williams, Carey McWilliams -

Works by Carey McWilliams

Southern California: An Island on the Land (1946) 224 copies

North from Mexico; The Spanish-Speaking People of the United States. (1950) 118 copies

Factories in the Field: The Story of Migratory Farm Labor in California (1939) 101 copies

California: The Great Exception (1949) 87 copies

Brothers under the skin (1944) 45 copies

A Mask for Privilege: Anti-Semitism in America (1948) 38 copies

Fool's Paradise: A Carey McWilliams Reader (2001) 23 copies

Prejudice; Japanese-Americans: symbol of racial intolerance (1944) 21 copies

The Education of Carey McWilliams (1979) 18 copies

Ill fares the land; migrants and migratory labor in the United States (1942) 13 copies

Witch hunt : the revival of heresy (1950) 8 copies

The California Revolution, Edited by Carey McWilliams (1968) 4 copies

Ambrose Bierce: A Biography (1929) 4 copies

The Mexicans in America; a students' guide to localized history (1969) 3 copies

Louis Adamic & shadow-America (1935) 2 copies

Moonlight's Meridian: Nuclear Terrorism And the Undead (2005) 2 copies

What about our Japanese-Americans? (Public Affairs pamphlets) 2 copies

The new regionalism in American literature (1974) 1 copy

Race Discrimination and the Law. With an Introduction By a.J. Isserman (1945) 1 copy

Associated Works

America Is in the Heart: A Personal History (1946) — Introduction, some editions — 431 copies

Major Problems in the History of the American West: Documents and Essays (1989) — Contributor — 63 copies

Shaking the Foundations: 200 Years of Investigative Journalism in America (Nation Books) (2003) — Contributor — 45 copies

Unknown California (1985) — Contributor — 41 copies

The New Student Left: An Anthology (1966) — Foreword — 25 copies

Sweatshops in the sun; child labor on the farm, (1973) — Foreword — 7 copies

One hundred years of the Nation: a centennial anthology (1972) — Introduction — 6 copies

A view of the Nation, an anthology: 1955-1959 (1960) — Introduction — 6 copies

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Common Knowledge

Birthdate: 1905-12-13
Date of death: 1980-06-27
Gender: male
Nationality: USA
Birthplace: Steamboat Springs, Colorado, USA
Places of residence: Los Angeles, California, USA
Education: University of Southern California (Law)
Relationships: McWilliams, Wilson C. (son)
Organizations: The Nation

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North From Mexico: The Spanish-Speaking People of… by Carey Mcwilliams

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pszolovits | Feb 3, 2021 |

Southern California: An Island on the Land by Carey McWilliams

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Ill fares the land : migrants and migratory labour… by Carey McWilliams

Book Review from the March 1946 issue of the Socialist Standard:

http://socialiststandardmyspace.blogspot.com/2017/10/slaves-of-farm-usa-1946.htm...

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Impossibilist | Oct 1, 2017 |

Southern California Country: An Island on the Land… by Carey McWilliams

Loved this book. It takes you back to before urban sprawl, when there were still orange groves in the area. It's quite a shock when you compare the author's So. California to what it is today.

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David.A.Rainey | 5 other reviews | Dec 24, 2015 |

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Awards

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Commonwealth Club of California Book Awards

Brothers under the skin (Winner – Nonfiction – 1943)

Notable Books List

A Mask for Privilege: Anti-Semitism in America (1948)

CounterPunch's Top 100 [and a few more] Non-fiction Works of the 20th Century

Factories in the Field: The Story of Migratory Farm Labor in California

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Henry M. Christman

Ronald B. Taylor

Lya De Cardoza Translator

A. J. Isserman Introduction

Statistics

Works: 19
Also by: 8
Members: 715
Popularity: #35,476
Rating: 3.9

Reviews: 10
ISBNs: 40
Languages: 1
Favorited: 1

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American National Biography

Carey McWilliams papers, UCLA Library

Encyclopedia of the Great Depression (via Encyclopedia.com)

Encyclopedia Britannica

The Nation author page

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