TheLatinopopulation is spread throughout the Bay Area, but among the nine counties, the greatest number live in Santa Clara County, while Contra Costa County has seen the highest growth rate.[140]The largest Hispanic or Latino groups were those ofMexican(17.9%),Salvadoran(1.3%),Guatemalan(0.6...
3. “The people” minus some people: racial agrarian capitalism in the San Joaquin Valley 3.1. “Bare life” as status quo Materializing Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben's (1998) biopolitical theory, regimes of law and economy in Kern County have systematically severed farmworkers from political...