LaborFest: Mexican American Labor in Silicon Valley

"The Devil in Silicon Valley: Northern California, Race and Mexican Americans" by Stephen Pitti, a book reading.
Mr. Pitti has made an important contribution in discovering the hidden history of Silicon Valley and Northern California. The first multi-nationals in California in fact used Indian slave labor to mine cinnabar in New Almaden and these stories keep coming. Another description is at http://press.princeton.edu/titles/7386.html as follows: "This sweeping history explores the growing Latino presence in the United States over the past two hundred years. It also debunks common myths about Silicon Valley, one of the world's most influential but least-understood places. Far more than any label of the moment, the devil of racism has long been Silicon Valley's defining force, and Stephen Pitti argues that ethnic Mexicans--rather than computer programmers--should take center stage in any contemporary discussion of the "new West.""