Latinos at the Golden Gate by Tomás F. Summers Sandoval

Author:Tomás F. Summers Sandoval [Sandoval, Tomás F. Summers]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science, Cultural Studies, Ethnic Studies, History, Americas, United States
ISBN: 9781469607672
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2013-08-01T04:00:00+00:00

THROUGHOUT THE FIRST HALF of the twentieth century, commercial and manufacturing enterprise continued to position San Francisco as central to U.S. economic designs throughout the Pacific. Stories of Latino community formation in this period vividly demonstrate the human results of these endeavors, as multifaceted projects of economic imperialism facilitated new migratory and resettlement patterns. The extension and maturation of the city’s hemispheric networks, connections that moved capital and raw goods from the Spanish-speaking South through the Golden Gate, also moved distinct segments of the Latin American people. The Mexican, Salvadoran, Nicaraguan, and other Latin American migrants who resettled in the Bay Area were a living embodiment of the colonial adage: “We are here because you were there.”

Once in the city, Latinas and Latinos engaged a multifaceted process of “homemaking,” re-creating the tastes, sounds, and sights of the familiar. Whether in a Mexican restaurant or a Central American newspaper, those new articulations of life in the urban West should be seen for the simple yet important acts they are—active attempts to forge lives of meaning, dignity, and community. As Latinos emerged as new social subjects, men and women with visibility and agency in midcentury San Francisco, they altered the focus and, at times, the purpose of powerful institutions. The cultural remaking of parishes within the San Francisco Archdiocese, as demonstrated in the transformation of St. Peter’s into San Pedro, also remade these institutions into sites of Latino Catholicism, a culturally specific spirituality that simultaneously reflected Latina and Latino agency and helped set the context for its ongoing emergence. As new institutions, political events, and movements facilitated cultural dialogues within community spaces, Latino San Franciscans would continue to create and express something uniquely their own.

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