Jerry González

In Search of the Mexican Beverly Hills: Latino Suburbanization in Postwar Los Angeles

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In Search of the Mexican Beverly Hills examines the 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. 

Produktdetails

• Latinidad: Transnational Cultu
• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• None
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Altersempfehlung: ab 18 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. November 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 218mm x 166mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 372g
• ISBN-13: 9780813583167
• ISBN-10: 0813583160
• Artikelnr.: 48956884

Autorenporträt

JERRY GONZÁLEZ is an associate professor of history at the University of Texas at San Antonio.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1
1. The Lands of Mañana 14
2. Mexican Americans and the Suburban Ideal 46
3. El MAPA to the Suburban Ideal 75
4. Suburban Renewal 103
Epilogue: Let’s Take a Trip . . . 131
Acknowledgments 139
Notes 145
Index 193