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- In Search of the Mexican Beverly Hills: Latino Suburbanization in Postwar Los Angeles
- Book
- 2017
- Published by: Rutgers University Press
- Series: Latinidad: Transnational Cultures in the United States Series
summary
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.
Table of Contents
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- Introduction
- pp. 1-13
- Chapter 1: The Lands of Mañana
- pp. 14-45
- Chapter 3: El MAPA to the Suburban Ideal
- pp. 75-102
- Chapter 4: Suburban Renewal
- pp. 103-130
- Epilogue: Let’s Take a Trip . . .
- pp. 131-138
- Acknowledgments
- pp. 139-144
- About the Author
- pp. 203-206
Additional Information
ISBN
9780813583181
Related ISBN(s)
9780813583167, 9780813583174, 9780813595511
MARC Record
OCLC
990778358
Pages
216
Launched on MUSE
2018-01-03
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
2018