Introduction -- 1. Mexican Pueblo of Santa Barbara -- 2. From "Mexican" to "American" Santa Barbara -- 3. Barrioization of the Chicano community -- 4. Origins of the Chicano working class in Santa Barbara -- 5. Mexican society in nineteenth-century Southern California -- 6. Mexican immigration and the expansion of the Santa Barbara Chicano community -- 7. Chicanos and the labor market of the early 1900s -- 8. Race relations in twentieth-century Santa Barbara -- 9. Urban Chicanos in predepression Southern California.