The research of these two authors has essentially broken the standards of the past, presenting a challenge to historians and sociologists. The challenge is to find why Californians, a multiethnic people with multiethnic population areas, continue to view race as a prevalent indicator of socioeconomic variables and social problems. This is the critical thinking that Almaguer and Molina present in their works, guiding the interest and study of sociology. The new school of thought is why the breed continues to do so