Dr.  Yvette Saavedra was featured on The Crown City Podcast  on April 21st, 2021.

Listen here: https://www.thecrowncitypodcast.com/episodes/episode-01-slow-travel-4t5bk-8wgel-dglty-kfcfn-77lwk-ze7ws-zwp65

The topic was Dr. Saavedra’s book Pasadena Before the Roses:  Race, Identity, and Land Use in Southern California, 1771-1890, (University of Arizona, 2018), which examines and details the social and cultural history of how Spanish, Mexican, American and Indigenous groups’ competing visions of land use affected the formation of racial and cultural identity in Pasadena, California, during this period.

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