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East of East : The Making of Greater 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...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Brunswick, New Jersey :
Rutgers University Press,
[2020]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: Burn the wagon: finding silenced histories, lost intersections, and radical possibilities in greater El Monte / by Romeo Guzman, Carribean Fragoza, Alex Sayf Cummings, Ryan Reft
- Part 1. Origins and departures
- The Tongva people / by Aurelie Roy
- Toypurina: a legend etched in the landscape / by Maria John
- From alta california to american statehood: race, change, and the Californio Pico family / by Ryan Reft
- Here come the El Monte boys: vigilante justice and lynch mobs in 19th century El Monte / by Karen Wilson and Dan Lynch
- Part 2. Social and political movements
- Rise, fall, repeat: El Monte's white supremacy movements / Daniel Cady
- Ricardo Flores Magon and anarchist movement in El Monte / by Yesenia Barragan and Mark Bray
- Bitter fruit: the El Monte Berry Strike of 1933 / by Melquiades Fernandez
- Schools for all: the desegregation campaign in El Monte / by Rachel Newman
- City of achievement: the making of the city of South El Monte, 1955-1976 / by Nick Juravich
- La lucha continua! Gloria Arellanes and the women of the Chicano movement / by Juan Herrera
- Towards a radical arts practice: theater and muralism during the Chicano
- Movement / by Carribean Fragoza
- American dreams and immigrant realities in a South El Monte shoe factory / Adam Goodman
- Dreams of escape and belonging: the making of Asian El Monte / Alex Sayf Cummings.
- Part 3. Nature and the built environment
- Hicks Camp: a Mexican barrio / by Daniel Morales
- Life at Marrano Beach: the lost barrio beach of Los Angeles / by Daniel Medina
- From small farming to urban agriculture: El Monte subsistence homesteading / by Ryan Reft
- A community erased: Japanese Americans in El Monte and the greater SGV / by Andre Kobayashi Deckrow
- Whittier Narrows Park: a story of water, power, and displacement / by David Reid
- Transportational El Monte, from the red car to the freeway / by Ryan Reft
- The Starlite Swap Meet / by Jennifer Renteria
- Part 4. Popular culture
- El Monte's wild past: a history of Gay's Lion Farm / by Michael Weller
- Memories of El Monte: Art Laboe's charmed life on the air / by Jude Webre
- El Monte's wildweed: biraciality and the punk ethos of the Gun Club's Jeffrey Lee Pierce / by Troy Andreas Araiza Kokinis
- The punk & the seamstress / by Apolonio Morales
- A gay bar, some familia, and Latina butch-femme: rounding out the Eastside Circle at El Monte's Sugar Shack / by Stacy I. Macias
- All the zumba ladies: reclaiming bodies and space through serious booty-shaking / by Carribean Fragoza
- Part 5. Literary cartographies
- 1181 Durfee Avenue: 1983 to 1986 / by Michael Jaime-Becerra
- Train versus pedestrian on Valley Boulevard / by Alex Espinoza
- Epiphany Catholic Church / Toni Margarita Plummer
- Rush street / by Carribean Fragoza
- Durfee Avenue / by Salvador Plascencia
- Epilogue: East of east: suburban cosmopolitanism in the San Gabriel Valley / by Wendy Cheng
- Appendix.