Format:
1 Online-Ressource (250 p)
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33 B-W photographs and images
Edition:
[Online-Ausgabe]
ISBN:
9781978805521
Series Statement:
Latinidad: Transnational Cultures in the
Content:
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, from eighteenth-century Spanish colonization to twenty-first century globalization. Employing traditional historical scholarship, oral history, creative nonfiction and original art, the book provides a radical new history of El Monte and South El Monte, showing how interdisciplinary and community-engaged scholarship can break new ground in public history. East of East tells stories that have been excluded from dominant historical narratives-stories that long survived only in the popular memory of residents, as well as narratives that have been almost completely buried and all but forgotten. Its cast of characters includes white vigilantes, Mexican anarchists, Japanese farmers, labor organizers, civil rights pioneers, and punk rockers, as well as the ordinary and unnamed youth who generated a vibrant local culture at dances and dive bars
Content:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: Finding Silenced Histories, Lost Intersections, and Radical Possibilities in Greater El Monte -- Introduction -- 1. The Tongva People -- 2. Toypurina: A Legend Etched in the Landscape -- 3. From Alta California to American Statehood: Race, Change, and the Californio Pico Family -- 4. Here Come the El Monte Boys: Vigilante Justice and Lynch Mobs in Nineteenth-Century El Monte -- Introduction -- 5. Rise, Fall, Repeat: El Monte's White Supremacy Movements -- 6. Ricardo Flores Magón and the Anarchist Movement in El Monte -- 7. Bitter Fruit: The El Monte Berry Strike of 1933 -- 8. Schools for All: The Desegregation Campaign in El Monte -- 9. "City of Achievement": The Making of the City of South El Monte, 1955-1976 -- 10. ¡La Lucha Continua! Gloria Arellanes and the Women of the Chicano Movement -- 11. Toward a Radical Arts Practice: Theater and Muralism during the Chicano Movement -- 12. American Dreams and Immigrant Realities in a South El Monte Shoe Factory -- 13. Dreams of Escape and Belonging: The Making of Asian El Monte since 1965 -- Introductions -- 14. Hicks Camp: A Mexican Barrio -- 15. Life at Marrano Beach: The Lost Barrio Beach of Los Angeles -- 16. From Small Farming to Urban Agriculture: El Monte and Subsistence Homesteading -- 17. A Community Erased: Japanese Americans in El Monte and the Greater San Gabriel Valley -- 18. Whittier Narrows Park: A Story of Water, Power, and Displacement -- 19. Transportational El Monte: From the Red Car to the Freeway -- 20. The Starlite Swap Meet -- Introduction -- 21. El Monte's Wild Past: A History of Gay's Lion Farm -- 22. Memories of El Monte: Art Laboe's Charmed Life on the Air -- 23. El Monte's Wildweed: Biraciality and the Punk Ethos of the Gun Club's Jeffrey Lee Pierce -- 24. Punk and the Seamstress -- 25. A Gay Bar, Some Familia, and Latina Butch-Femme: Rounding Out the Eastside Circle at El Monte's Sugar Shack -- 26. All the Zumba Ladies: Reclaiming Bodies and Space through Serious Booty Shaking -- Introduction -- 27. 1181 Durfee Avenue: 1983 to 1986 -- 28. Train versus Pedestrian on Valley Boulevard -- 29. Epiphany Catholic Church -- 30. Rush Street -- 31. Durfee Avenue -- Epilogue: Suburban Cosmopolitanism in the San Gabriel Valley -- Acknowledgments -- Selected Bibliography -- Notes on Contributors -- Index
Note:
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
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In English
Language:
English
DOI:
10.36019/9781978805521
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781978805521
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