In search of the Mexican Beverly Hills : Latino suburbanization in postwar Los Angeles / Jerry Gonzalez.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gonzalez, Jerry, 1978- author.

Series:

Latinidad

Latinidad: transnational cultures in the United States

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mexican Americans--California--Los Angeles Suburban Area.

Mexican Americans.

Los Angeles Suburban Area (Calif.)--History.

Los Angeles Suburban Area (Calif.).

California--Los Angeles Suburban Area.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

vii, 201 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2018]

Summary:

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 145-192) and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Gonzalez, Jerry, 1978- In search of the Mexican Beverly Hills.

ISBN:

9780813583150

0813583152

9780813583167

0813583160

OCLC:

982430926