Cynthia L. Chamberlin

About The Author

Cynthia L. Chamberlin is the historian, editor, and translator at the Center for the Study of Latino Health and Culture at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. She is also the coauthor of a number of CESLAC’s publications on the history of Latinos in California.

Books by Cynthia L. Chamberlin

The Latino Big Bang in California

The Diary of Justo Veytia, a Mexican Forty-Niner

Edited by David E. Hayes-Bautista, Cynthia L. Chamberlin and Gray Bryan Paul / Epilogue by Luis Jaime Veytia Orozco
The Latino Big Bang in California presents a Spanish transcription and English translation of a diary written by Forty-Niner Justo Veytia, a Mexican immigrant seeking riches during California’s Gold Rush. Veytia’s diary offers insights into the dilemmas and choices of an adventurous and ambitious...
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