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Author : Patrick H. McNamara
Release : 1975
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Mexican-Americans in Los Angeles County by : Patrick H. McNamara
Download or read book Mexican-Americans in Los Angeles County written by Patrick H. McNamara. This book was released on 1975. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alex Moreno Areyan
Release : 2010
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 067/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Mexican Americans in Los Angeles by : Alex Moreno Areyan
Download or read book Mexican Americans in Los Angeles written by Alex Moreno Areyan. This book was released on 2010. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mexican Americans established and nurtured the foundation, fiber, and fabric of Los Angeles since the first pobladores arrived in 1781. Pride in family, work, community, and religion coalesces into their legacy from East Los Angeles to the San Fernando Valley to the port areas of Wilmington and San Pedro. Men and women of Mexican heritage comprised 47 percent of Los Angeles County's Latino population in the 21st century. The modern Mexican American saga is embodied in the success of Congressman Edward Roybal, Congresswoman Lucille Roybal Allard, dynamic civic leader Dionicio Morales, and Los Angeles County supervisor Gloria Molina. Labor leader Cesar Chavez instilled passion and hope, while prizefighters Art Aragon, Paul Gonzalez, and Oscar De La Hoya and actors Anthony Quinn, Katy Jurado, Ricardo Montalban, and Edward James Olmos provided inspiration. The city's first Mexican American mayor in more than a century, Antonio Villaraigosa, was elected in 2005. This book is a distillation of a proud people's contributions to, and achievements in, a great city.
Author : Jerry González
Release : 2017-11-15
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 187/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis In Search of the Mexican Beverly Hills by : Jerry González
Download or read book In Search of the Mexican Beverly Hills written by Jerry González. This book was released on 2017-11-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Residential and industrial sprawl changed more than the political landscape of postwar Los Angeles. It expanded the employment and living opportunities for millions of Angelinos into new suburbs. In Search of the Mexican Beverly Hills examines the struggle for inclusion into this exclusive world—a multilayered process by which Mexican Americans moved out of the barrios and emerged as a majority population in the San Gabriel Valley—and the impact that movement had on collective racial and class identity. Contrary to the assimilation processes experienced by most Euro-Americans, Mexican Americans did not graduate to whiteness on the basis of their suburban residence. Rather, In Search of the Mexican Beverly Hills illuminates how Mexican American racial and class identity were both reinforced by and took on added metropolitan and transnational dimensions in the city during the second half of the twentieth century.
Author : Rodolfo F. Acuña
Release : 2020-04-14
Genre : Social Science
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Book Rating : 817/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Anything But Mexican by : Rodolfo F. Acuña
Download or read book Anything But Mexican written by Rodolfo F. Acuña. This book was released on 2020-04-14. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in the tumult of 1996, in an era of new nativism and panic about the Latinization of America, Anything But Mexican solidified Rodolfo Acua's place as "the W.E.B. Du Bois of Chicano Studies." A stirring, insightful chronicle of Los Angeles's working class chicanos, this new edition brings their story and struggles up to present day.
Author : Christina Chávez
Release : 2007
Genre : Education
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Book Rating : 825/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Five Generations of a Mexican American Family in Los Angeles by : Christina Chávez
Download or read book Five Generations of a Mexican American Family in Los Angeles written by Christina Chávez. This book was released on 2007. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Despite their citizenship and English monolingualism, Mexican Americans have long been known to remain largely working class, which, academically, has meant that they tend to be mostly high school graduates with low rates of college attendance and completion. Attempting to understand this phenomenon, Five Generations of a Mexican American Family in Los Angeles chronicles the home work, and school lives of the author's multigenerational family throughout the twentieth century. Using oral histories of thirty-three members across five generations, the Fuentes story illuminates the interactions among race, ethnicity, and class at home, in the labor market, and in schools, which circumscribe the opportunity and resources - or lack thereof - for academic success."--BOOK JACKET.
