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SCHOOL: ADVISORS: COMMITTEE MEMBERS: MPACT Status: Fully Complete Title: Regional imagination and radical conscience: Carey McWilliams in the West Abstract: During more than two decades in Southern California, radical attorney and journalist Carey McWilliams demonstrated a critical link between social inquiry and political activism. As a social critic and historian, McWilliams' enduring topic was the west. He helped redefine the region's history through studies including Factories in the Field (1939), Brothers Under the Skin (1943), Southern California Country: An Island on the Land (1946), and North From Mexico, The Spanish Speaking People of the United States (1949). As an attorney, McWilliams was often at the center of regional politics. Involved in issues ranging from the rights of migrant workers to questions of racial equality, McWilliams fused critical investigation with social struggle. After the Second World War, McWilliams became editor of The Nation and guided that journal's activist perspective through two decades of the Cold War. |
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