UC San Diego

The decades between 1970-1990 witnessed a crystallization of political whiteness and white supremacy in San Diego County, especially at its epicenter in Fallbrook, California. What came to be known as the white power movement developed an explicitly anti-Mexican racial policy based on violence as part of a declared race war. This microhistory focuses on the racial formation that transpired among Fallbrook’s white and Mexican communities during the latter quarter of the twenty-century.