Immigration and the Changing Picture of California
Talking about the relationship between immigrants and the Californian landscape, moderator Bob Sipchen told the audience at the Getty Center, is a bit like talking about how birds get along with the sky. “It was almost redundant,” said Sipchen, editor of Sierra magazine. “They are inexorably linked.” But Sipchen and the panelists — UC San Diego’s Nayan Shah, Brown University’s Matthew Garcia, and Getty Center fellow Ken Gonzales-Day — told a more complex story, of waves of migrant laborers drawn by the promise of a lush California, of booming towns …
