In search of the Mexican Beverly Hills : Latino suburbanization in postwar Los Angeles /
Gonzalez, Jerry, 1978-
In search of the Mexican Beverly Hills : Latino suburbanization in postwar Los Angeles / Jerry Gonzalez. - 1 online resource (vii, 201 pages) - Latinidad: Transnational Cultures in the United States . - Latinidad. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. The Lands Of Mañana -- 2. Mexican Americans And The Suburban Ideal -- 3. El MAPA To The Suburban Ideal -- 4. Suburban Renewal -- Epilogue: Let'S Take A Trip . . . -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index -- About The Author
"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"--
9780813583181 (electronic book) 0813583187 (electronic book) 9780813583174 (electronic book) 0813583179 (electronic book) (hardcover) 0813583160 9780813583167 9780813583150 (paperback) 0813583152
22573/ctt1t9gm7p JSTOR
2017029748
Mexican Americans--California--Los Angeles Suburban Area.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Ethnic Studies--Hispanic American Studies.
HISTORY--State & Local--West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)--United States
POLITICAL SCIENCE--Public Policy--City Planning & Urban Development.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Sociology--Urban.
HISTORY--20th Century.--United States
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Social Classes.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Minority Studies.
Mexican Americans.
Los Angeles Suburban Area (Calif.)--History.
California--Los Angeles Suburban Area.
Electronic books.
History.
F869.L89 / M5172 2018
305.868/72079493
In search of the Mexican Beverly Hills : Latino suburbanization in postwar Los Angeles / Jerry Gonzalez. - 1 online resource (vii, 201 pages) - Latinidad: Transnational Cultures in the United States . - Latinidad. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. The Lands Of Mañana -- 2. Mexican Americans And The Suburban Ideal -- 3. El MAPA To The Suburban Ideal -- 4. Suburban Renewal -- Epilogue: Let'S Take A Trip . . . -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index -- About The Author
"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"--
9780813583181 (electronic book) 0813583187 (electronic book) 9780813583174 (electronic book) 0813583179 (electronic book) (hardcover) 0813583160 9780813583167 9780813583150 (paperback) 0813583152
22573/ctt1t9gm7p JSTOR
2017029748
Mexican Americans--California--Los Angeles Suburban Area.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Ethnic Studies--Hispanic American Studies.
HISTORY--State & Local--West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)--United States
POLITICAL SCIENCE--Public Policy--City Planning & Urban Development.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Sociology--Urban.
HISTORY--20th Century.--United States
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Social Classes.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Minority Studies.
Mexican Americans.
Los Angeles Suburban Area (Calif.)--History.
California--Los Angeles Suburban Area.
Electronic books.
History.
F869.L89 / M5172 2018
305.868/72079493