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      Oakland, California

      © 2018 by The Regents of the University of California

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Names: Lara, Juan D. De, author.

      Title: Inland shift : race, space, and capital in Southern California / Juan D. De Lara.

      Description: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2018] | Includes bibliographical references and index. |

      Identifiers: LCCN 2017048921 (print) | LCCN 2017051617 (ebook) | ISBN 9780520964181 (ebook) | ISBN 9780520289581 (cloth : alk. paper) | ISBN 9780520297395 (pbk. : alk. paper)

      Subjects: LCSH: Inland Empire (Calif.)—Economic conditions. | Labor movement—California—Inland Empire. | Race discrimination—California—Inland Empire. | Regional economics—California—Inland Empire. | Inland Empire (Calif.)—Politics and government. | Inland Empire (Calif.)—Race relations.

      Classification: LCC HC107.C22 (ebook) | LCC HC107.C22 L37 2018 (print) | DDC 330.9794/9—dc23

      LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017048921

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       For my children, Ixchel, Emiliano, and Niko

       Para mi madre, Esperanza

       And in loving memory of my father, José “Chepe” De Lara

      Contents

       List of Illustrations

       Acknowledgments

       Introduction

       SCENE 1: A SPACE FOR LOGISTICS

      1 •Space, Power, and Method

      2 •Global Goods and the Infrastructure of Desire

      3 •The Spatial Politics of Southern California’s Logistics Regime

       SCENE 2: PRECARIOUS LABOR

      4 •The Circuits of Capital

      5 •Cyborg Labor in the Global Logistics Matrix

      6 •Contesting Contingency

       SCENE 3: THE RETERRITORIALIZATION OF RACE AND CLASS

      7 •Mapping the American Dream

      8 •Land, Capital, and Race

      9 •Latinx Frontiers

       Conclusion

       Notes

       References

       Index

Illustrations

      MAP

       Inland Southern California

      FIGURES

      1.Smoke rises from eight open hearth furnaces at the Kaiser steel mill in Fontana, CA, 1952.

      2.Chinese dismantling crew being bused to their camp at the end of the day shift, Kaiser steel mill, Fontana, CA, December 1993.

      3.Workers load 75-ton ladles from the Kaiser steel mill onto the Atlantic Queen for shipment to China, Los Angeles Harbor, July 1994.

      4.Kaiser steel worker oversees pouring of hot metal pig iron from a blast furnace by means of a 75-ton ladle, Fontana, CA, May 1, 1952.

      5.Growth of consumer debt in the United States, 1980–2010.

      6.Value of commodities imported into the United States, by country, 1996–2010.

      7.Port growth by container volume.

      8.A typical integrated global shipment system.

      9.“Invisible No More.” Warehouse workers use a forklift to block major truck intersection.

      10.Father Fernando Santillana and a small group try to stop an angry truck driver from ramming into protestors.

      11.Patented cross-dock model.

      12.Warehouse management systems enable labor surveillance and discipline.

      13.Body-worn barcode scanners turn warehouse workers into cyborg logistics laborers.

      14.Blue-collar warehouse wages.

      15.Temporary worker wages.

      16.Growth in temporary employment.

      17.A Latinx region in the making: share of population growth by race, Riverside and San Bernardino Counties.

      18.Ku Klux Klan members march through residential streets in Fontana, CA, November 28, 1981.

      19.Vandals paint KKK graffiti and erect a cross on the home of Anthony Alexander and his mother, Ora Angel, San Bernardino, CA, 1984.

      20.Skechers warehouse in Moreno Valley.

      TABLES

      1.Diesel-Related Cancer Cases

      2.Former Farmland Converted to Housing and Warehouse Development, San Bernardino County, 2004–2006

      3.Top Homebuilders in the Inland Empire

      4.Largest Industrial Warehouse Developers in the Inland Empire, 2009

Acknowledgments

      The idea for this book took root during my undergraduate days at Pitzer College in Claremont, California. Claremont exposed me to professors and students who believed that another world was possible

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