Becoming Mexican American : ethnicity, culture, and identity in Chicano Los Angeles, 1900-1945 /

Sánchez, George J.

Becoming Mexican American : ethnicity, culture, and identity in Chicano Los Angeles, 1900-1945 / George J. Sánchez. - New York : Oxford University Press, 1995, ©1993. - 1 online resource (xiv, 367 pages) : illustrations

Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-349) and index.

pt. 1. Crossing borders -- 1. Farewell homeland -- 2. Across the dividing line -- 3. Newcomers in the city of the angels -- pt. 2. Divided loyalties -- 4. Americanization and the Mexican immigrant -- 5. The "new nationalism," Mexican style -- pt. 3. Shifting homelands -- 6. Family life and the search for stability -- 7. The sacred and the profane : religious adaptations -- 8. Familiar sounds of change : music and the growth of mass culture -- 9. Workers and consumers : a community emerges -- pt. 4. Ambivalent Americanism -- 10. Where is home? : the dilemma of repatriation -- 11. Forging a new politics of opposition -- 12. The rise of the second generation.

9780199762231 (electronic bk.) 0199762236 (electronic bk.)


Mexican Americans--Social conditions.--California--Los Angeles
Mexican Americans--Ethnic identity.--California--Los Angeles
Ethnicity--California--Los Angeles.
Américains d'origine mexicaine--Conditions sociales.--Californie--Los Angeles
Américains d'origine mexicaine--Identité ethnique--Californie--Los Angeles.
Ethnicité--Californie--Los Angeles.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Anthropology--Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Minority Studies.
Ethnicity.
Mexican Americans--Ethnic identity.
Mexican Americans--Social conditions.
Social conditions.


Los Angeles (Calif.)--Social conditions.
California--Los Angeles.


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