Shameful victory : the Los Angeles Dodgers, the Red Scare, and the hidden history of Chavez Ravine / John H. M. Laslett.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Laslett, John H. M., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dodger Stadium (Los Angeles, Calif.).

History.

Mexican Americans.

Social conditions.

Land use.

Hispanic American neighborhoods.

Public housing.

Chávez Ravine (Los Angeles, Calif.)--History--20th century.

Chávez Ravine (Los Angeles, Calif.).

Public housing--California--Los Angeles.

Los Angeles (Calif.)--Politics and government--20th century.

Los Angeles (Calif.).

Hispanic American neighborhoods--California--Los Angeles--History--20th century.

Land use--California--Los Angeles--History--20th century.

Mexican Americans--California--Los Angeles--History--20th century.

Mexican Americans--California--Los Angeles--Social conditions.

Los Angeles (Calif.)--Race relations--History--20th century.

Dodger Stadium (Los Angeles, Calif.)--History--20th century.

Mexican Americans--Social conditions.

Politics and government.

Race relations.

California--Los Angeles.

California--Los Angeles--Chávez Ravine.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xi, 218 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Tucson : The University of Arizona Press, 2015.

Summary:

"The book offers a history of Chavez Ravine with special attention to the period after World War II to the early 1960s, studying Los Angeles and its political structure, the contractions in policies around public housing, the impact on Mexican Americans, and the building of Dodger Stadium and the arrival of the team to Chavez Ravine"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Building a unique barrio

Mexicans on the hilltop : gaining a foothold, 1830-1929

Prelude to a crisis : race, patriotism, and public housing in depression and war, 1929-1949

Public housing, evictions, and the impact of the Red Scare

Struggling to keep our homes : the evictions crisis, 1950-1952

Political consequences : the defeat of public housing and the triumph of corporate modernism, 1950-1953

Building Dodger Stadium

L.A. pursues the Brooklyn Dodgers, 1957-1959

Dodger success and the history of minority displacement in Los Angeles, 1870-1990

Chavez Ravine in the light of subsequent history

Have LA's urban renewal policies been adequately reformed?

Chavez Ravine's cultural legacy.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780816500864

081650086X

OCLC:

905969987