| In Search of the Mexican Beverly Hills: Latino Suburbanization in Postwar Los Angeles Contributor(s): González, Jerry (Author) |
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ISBN: 0813583160 ISBN-13: 9780813583167 Publisher: Rutgers University Press OUR PRICE: $142.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: November 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - Hispanic American Studies - History | United States - State & Local - West (ak, Ca, Co, Hi, Id, Mt, Nv, Ut, Wy) - Social Science | Social Classes & Economic Disparity |
| Dewey: 305.868 |
| LCCN: 2017015418 |
| Series: Latinidad: Transnational Cultures in the |
| Physical Information: 0.67" H x 6.52" W x 8.6" (0.82 lbs) 216 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - Hispanic - Demographic Orientation - Urban - Chronological Period - 20th Century - Chronological Period - 1950-1999 - Cultural Region - Southern California - Demographic Orientation - Suburban - Ethnic Orientation - Chicano - Geographic Orientation - California - Cultural Region - Western U.S. - Cultural Region - West Coast |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |