Abstract
Chapter one begins in California’s Coachella Valley in the early to mid-twentieth century with the arrival of white settlers and irrigation-based agriculture. The latter was predicated on racialized farmworkers, especially ethnic Mexican families and migrant Filipino men. After World War II, the region underwent an agricultural expansion and the further solidification of a “Rancher Nation,” the United Farm Worker (UFW) term for a racialized agricultural society in rural California, where local ranchers overdetermined social relations and relegated racial Others to social, cultural, and political peripheries. Critically, ethnic Mexican and Filipino farmworkers held different social positions in the Coachella Valley and local ranchers found farmworker allies through patriarchal relationships.
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