East of East: The Making of Greater El Monte is an edited collection of thirty-one essays that trace the experience of a California community over three centuries. Employing traditional historical scholarship, oral history, and creative nonfiction, it provides a radical new history of El Monte and South El Monte.
East of East: The Making of Greater El Monte is an edited collection of thirty-one essays that trace the experience of a California community over three centuries. Employing traditional historical scholarship, oral history, and creative nonfiction, it provides a radical new history of El Monte and South El Monte.
ROMEO GUZMÁN is the co-director of the South El Monte Arts Posse and an assistant professor in US and Public History at Fresno State, where he is the founding director of the Valley Public History Initiative: Preserving our Stories. CARRIBEAN FRAGOZA is a journalist, fiction writer, and artist from South El Monte. She is the founder and co-director of the South El Monte Arts Posse. ALEX SAYF CUMMINGS is an associate professor of History at Georgia State University and the author of Democracy of Sound: Music Piracy and the Remaking of American Copyright in the Twentieth Century. RYAN REFT is a historian of the Modern United States in the Manuscript Division at the Library of Congress.
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Contents Introduction: Burn the Wagon: Finding Silenced Histories, Lost Intersections, and Radical Possibilities in Greater El Monte Romeo Guzmán, Carribean Fragoza, Alex Sayf Cummings, and Ryan Reft
Part I Origins and Departures 1 The Tongva People Aurelie Roy 2 Toypurina: A Legend Etched in the Landscape Maria John 3 From Alta California to American Statehood: Race, Change, and the Californio Pico Family Ryan Reft 4 Here Come the El Monte Boys: Vigilante Justice and Lynch Mobs in Nineteenth Century El Monte Karen Wilson and Dan Lynch
Part II Social and Political Movements 5 Rise, Fall, Repeat: El Monte’s White Supremacy Movements Daniel Cady 6 Ricardo Flores Magón and Anarchist Movement in El Monte Yesenia Barragan and Mark Bray 7 Bitter Fruit: The El Monte Berry Strike of 1933 Melquiades Fernandez 8 Schools for All: The Desegregation Campaign in El Monte Rachel Newman 9 City of Achievement: The Making of the City of South El Monte, 1955-1976 Nick Juravich 10 La Lucha Continua! Gloria Arellanes and the Women of the Chicano Movement Juan Herrera 11 Toward a Radical Arts Practice: Theater and Muralism during the Chicano Movement Carribean Fragoza 12 American Dreams and Immigrant Realities in a South El Monte Shoe Factory Adam Goodman 13 Dreams of Escape and Belonging: The Making of Asian El Monte Alex Sayf Cummings
Part IIINature and the Built Environment 14 Hicks Camp: A Mexican Barrio Daniel Morales 15 Life at Marrano Beach: The Lost Barrio Beach of Los Angeles Daniel Medina 16 From Small Farming to Urban Agriculture: El Monte Subsistence Homesteading Ryan Reft 17 A Community Erased: Japanese Americans in El Monte and the Greater SGV Andre Kobayashi Deckrow 18 Whittier Narrows Park: A Story of Water, Power, and Displacement David Reid 19 Transportational El Monte, From the Red Car to the Freeway Ryan Reft 20 The Starlite Swap Meet Jennifer Renteria
Part IVPopular Culture 21 El Monte’s Wild Past: A History of Gay’s Lion Farm Michael Weller 22 Memories of El Monte: Art Laboe’s Charmed Life on the Air Jude Webre 23 El Monte’s Wildweed: Biraciality and the Punk Ethos of The Gun Club’s Jeffrey Lee Pierce Troy Andreas Araiza Kokinis 24 The Punk and the Seamstress Apolonio Morales 25 A Gay Bar, Some Familia, and Latina Butch-Femme: Rounding out the Eastside Circle at El Monte’s Sugar Shack Stacy I. Macías 26 All the Zumba Ladies: Reclaiming Bodies and Space through Serious Booty-Shaking Carribean Fragoza
Part V Literary Cartographies 27 1181 Durfee Avenue: 1983 to 1986 Michael Jaime-Becerra 28 Train versus Pedestrian on Valley Boulevard Alex Espinoza 29 Epiphany Catholic Church Toni Margarita Plummer 30 Rush Street Carribean Fragoza 31 Durfee Avenue Salvador Plascencia Epilogue: East of East: Suburban Cosmopolitanism in the San Gabriel Valley Wendy Cheng
Acknowledgments Selected Bibliography Notes on Contributors Index
Contents Introduction: Burn the Wagon: Finding Silenced Histories, Lost Intersections, and Radical Possibilities in Greater El Monte Romeo Guzmán, Carribean Fragoza, Alex Sayf Cummings, and Ryan Reft
Part I Origins and Departures 1 The Tongva People Aurelie Roy 2 Toypurina: A Legend Etched in the Landscape Maria John 3 From Alta California to American Statehood: Race, Change, and the Californio Pico Family Ryan Reft 4 Here Come the El Monte Boys: Vigilante Justice and Lynch Mobs in Nineteenth Century El Monte Karen Wilson and Dan Lynch
Part II Social and Political Movements 5 Rise, Fall, Repeat: El Monte’s White Supremacy Movements Daniel Cady 6 Ricardo Flores Magón and Anarchist Movement in El Monte Yesenia Barragan and Mark Bray 7 Bitter Fruit: The El Monte Berry Strike of 1933 Melquiades Fernandez 8 Schools for All: The Desegregation Campaign in El Monte Rachel Newman 9 City of Achievement: The Making of the City of South El Monte, 1955-1976 Nick Juravich 10 La Lucha Continua! Gloria Arellanes and the Women of the Chicano Movement Juan Herrera 11 Toward a Radical Arts Practice: Theater and Muralism during the Chicano Movement Carribean Fragoza 12 American Dreams and Immigrant Realities in a South El Monte Shoe Factory Adam Goodman 13 Dreams of Escape and Belonging: The Making of Asian El Monte Alex Sayf Cummings
Part IIINature and the Built Environment 14 Hicks Camp: A Mexican Barrio Daniel Morales 15 Life at Marrano Beach: The Lost Barrio Beach of Los Angeles Daniel Medina 16 From Small Farming to Urban Agriculture: El Monte Subsistence Homesteading Ryan Reft 17 A Community Erased: Japanese Americans in El Monte and the Greater SGV Andre Kobayashi Deckrow 18 Whittier Narrows Park: A Story of Water, Power, and Displacement David Reid 19 Transportational El Monte, From the Red Car to the Freeway Ryan Reft 20 The Starlite Swap Meet Jennifer Renteria
Part IVPopular Culture 21 El Monte’s Wild Past: A History of Gay’s Lion Farm Michael Weller 22 Memories of El Monte: Art Laboe’s Charmed Life on the Air Jude Webre 23 El Monte’s Wildweed: Biraciality and the Punk Ethos of The Gun Club’s Jeffrey Lee Pierce Troy Andreas Araiza Kokinis 24 The Punk and the Seamstress Apolonio Morales 25 A Gay Bar, Some Familia, and Latina Butch-Femme: Rounding out the Eastside Circle at El Monte’s Sugar Shack Stacy I. Macías 26 All the Zumba Ladies: Reclaiming Bodies and Space through Serious Booty-Shaking Carribean Fragoza
Part V Literary Cartographies 27 1181 Durfee Avenue: 1983 to 1986 Michael Jaime-Becerra 28 Train versus Pedestrian on Valley Boulevard Alex Espinoza 29 Epiphany Catholic Church Toni Margarita Plummer 30 Rush Street Carribean Fragoza 31 Durfee Avenue Salvador Plascencia Epilogue: East of East: Suburban Cosmopolitanism in the San Gabriel Valley Wendy Cheng
Acknowledgments Selected Bibliography Notes on Contributors Index
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